The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

For those seeking a quieter, more affordable alternative to Chichén Itzá, these temples across the Yucatán Peninsula offer a ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Sharjah: In the heart of Sharjah’s desert, under rust-red dunes and fossil-strewn cliffs, lies a place that may hold the key ...

There’s something utterly human about seeking beauty in places once broken. Maybe it’s hope. Maybe it’s curiosity. Maybe it’s ...

The Minoan civilization flourished in the Middle Bronze Age (c ... It has been dated to 2,600—2,400 years BC in Mesopotamia. A Babylonian astronomer wrote the rules of the game in cuneiform around 177 ...

But in his latest book, “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization,” Murray sounds different than he used to. His speech is slower and more deliberate—lacking ...

And what really struck me is that this used to be a place called the Fertile Crescent. It was Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, two of the rivers that many ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

Soon to be the third largest in the world, India is the very cradle of civilization -- a cultural force whose time has come once again, she said. "For over 5000 years - from our kathavachaks to ...

BURLINGTON, Vermont — A US judge on Wednesday released a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, and was arrested by immigration officials ...