This episode explores the eerie question: how does an entire civilization just disappear? From thriving cities to complex ...

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

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

Known as the Colossi of Memnon, the statues of Amenhotep III both stand at more than 40 feet tall. Experts have been working ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ...

As a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Tehran, specializing in China-Iran relations, my fascination with the ...

Though our political, socio-economic world operates according to the dictates of rapacity, many continue to deny the existence of rape culture; a denial ...

No one knows the exact dates when various ancient civilizations figured out the importance of seed corn. The idea that you do ...

In some of the ancient civilizations each year was designated with a label rather than a number. For example, there was a Year of the Locust, a Year of the Flood, or a Year of Golden Harvest.

This legacy is preserved in the Qiuci Grottoes murals, where dance scenes appear alongside Buddhist stories. However, ...