Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and some interesting parallels relative to today. Ancient civilizations that ...

While much of Sogdian culture may be lost to time, some of their structures still stand, including the ruins of an ornate ...

A Celtic settlement unearthed in the Czech Republic yielded over 22,000 bags of artifacts including gold coins, jewelry and pottery from the La Tène period, according to officials.

Researchers believe a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded above Earth almost 13,000 years ago may have had a role in the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons, and most other megafauna ...

English archaeologist Jessica Rawson's book Life and Afterlife in Ancient China Photo: Courtesy of CITIC Press Group. In the ...

Long before fancy serums in dropper bottles and $300 night creams, ancient civilizations had their own sophisticated approaches to achieving luminous, healthy skin. While we typically imagine ancient ...

Sewer workers in Italy discovered a 2,300-year-old Messapian tomb from the 4th century B.C. in Manduria, containing ceramic ...

Rachel Feltman: There’s been a lot of hype around artificial intelligence lately. Some companies want us to believe that machine learning is powerful enough to practically tell the future. But what ...

WRESTLING, mankind’s oldest and most basic form of recreational combat, traces its origins back to the dawn of civilization.