Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to its development of complex ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

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

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

When you think about climate disasters, your mind probably goes to hurricanes or wildfires. Maybe you picture melting ice ...

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

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

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

Throughout history, there have been numerous cities that have been washed away due to natural disasters or changing landscapes. And although these cities do not exist it anymore, they've nonetheless ...

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.

So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...