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

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Ever wonder what secrets lie beneath the stones of ancient ruins? There’s something almost magical about standing where ...

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

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The narrative of civilization’s rise and fall is often illustrated with grand achievements and epic downfalls, but one of the most understated ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When a total solar eclipse crosses Ohio next month, modern astronomers will use the world’s most sophisticated computers and telescopes to measure, track and record it. But ancient ...