History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?