Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

A new international award known as the “Humanity Civilization Award” was launched by the World Daming Foundation in Hong Kong ...

For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The city's desperate situation has its origins in a commitment to food self-sufficiency and wasteful usage, with more than 90 ...

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Tehrans water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian cities such as Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad have faced similar stress, ...