The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

As it happens, the entrance to the Classics department was only about 20 metres from the entrance to the East Asia faculty ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...