A traveling art exhibit celebrating African civilizations, Egyptian mythology, and historic landscapes arrives in ...

But the creepiest layer of Marathon ’s mythology involves entities called the W’rkncacnter — primordial forces of chaos so dangerous they were imprisoned inside stars, black holes, and only ...

A trio of ancient reservoirs in present-day Guatemala is revealing both the strength—and limitations—of Mayan water science.

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

Research archaeologist Daniel Pierce, formerly of Imperial, hopes he and his colleague will head back to the Amazon this summer to find more evidence of a previously unknown ancient civilization.

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

In almost every Greek city you will find ancient monuments, sculptures or building remains that are evidence of the grand ...

Great minds go off on odd tangents. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes took time out from thinking about the Great Depression, which was throwing millions out of work, to write a charming essay about the ...

Published in 1889, The Gospel of Wealth is considered the founding document of modern philanthropy. Written at the height of wealth inequality during the Gilded Age, Andrew Carnegie’s essay represents ...

Ancient cave records reveal that repeated heavy rainfall and flooding, not drought, caused the decline of the Shijiahe culture in China.

Past civilizations have been significantly affected by climate change, but how they adapted to new conditions centuries ago ...

Using only satellite imagery and digital elevation maps, researchers may have uncovered the next Göbekli Tepe - an 11,000-year-old site buried beneath the hills of Turkey. Hidden oval and circular ...