As dams rose across southeastern Turkey, archaeologists rushed to rescue a disappearing past, and one strange museum find sent Klaus Schmidt to Potbelly Hill. There, Gobekli Tepe revealed a monumental ...

Spices, often overlooked, played a pivotal role in shaping Ancient Greek civilization. From the bustling markets of Athens to ...

While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just ...

An AI-generated analysis of the AI Impact series argues AI’s true value lies in augmenting human intelligence, not replacing ...

We often imagine ancient civilizations as primitive compared to today’s urban landscapes. Living in mud huts, traveling by ...

Visitors look at exhibits at The Proof of Early China: The Civilizations of Songze and Liangzhu, the second in The Essence of China exhibition series at the Shanghai Museum on June 20, 2023.[Photo ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...