According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Animals maintain complex cultures, communication systems, infrastructure, and intergenerational knowledge, writes Ryan Huling ...

The “cradle of civilization” may be turning into a dust bowl — and some Christians say the Bible saw it coming. The mighty ...

Maps have shaped human history far more than many people realize. Long before satellites and digital navigation existed, maps helped civilizations trade, travel, wage wars, and explore unfamiliar ...

They’ve built a new online tool, Paleolatitude.org 3.0, that lets anyone click a place on Earth and see what latitude it ...

Tartaria was a real place that appeared on old maps, but there is no evidence to support the conspiracy theories surrounding ...

Most people don’t associate Pennsylvania with landscapes that look like movie sets, but those people clearly haven’t been to ...

Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to understand why and how civilizations collapse. They've found that symptoms like a ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the backbone of Indian culture. However, if we look at the timeline of human ...

The United Nations was built on a fundamental conviction: dialogue is the path to peace. On this First International Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations, we celebrate that conviction – and the rich ...