The unearthing of ancient ruins beneath desert sands is a thrilling development in archaeology, offering revolutionary insights into the sophisticated cultures of bygone civilizations. The Role of ...

Explore the topics history sometimes forgets: the tastes, textures, sounds, and smells that were an important part of our ancestor’s lives. This October, the SciFri Book Club will read Dinner with ...

To write his latest book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean joined a group of experimental archaeologists who learn by doing. These researchers aim to recreate the sites, sounds, smells and tastes of lost ...

How does Plato's references to the Greek alphabet help us to work out where Atlantis really was? This article examines the evidence.

The discovery of an ancient Tiwanaku temple in Bolivia is helping researchers paint a more complete picture of what the society once looked like. The Tiwanaku civilization was considered one of the ...

Explorations of a submerged passage in the Tlayococ cave in Mexico led to an undiscovered room. Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a ...

A powerful new historical novel rooted in Southwest Florida’s earliest history has arrived. Apocalypse of the Calusa, written ...

Discover the list of 9 forgotten kingdoms and vanished civilisations here. From the Indus Valley to the Khmer Empire, the ...

Timeline of world civilizations -- Across oceans before Columbus. Prologue: Life at sea ; A land bridge too far ; Along the Silk Road ; Plants between continents ; European seafaring, 100,000 B.C. ; ...