5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

The time is now urgent, he says, to question the “theological legitimacy” of the state and to expose the “supposedly ‘secular ...

Ancient roots: Enchiladas trace back to Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs, who wrapped fish in corn tortillas and dipped them in chili sauce. Regional twists: From seafood-filled coastal ...

Is it possible that another civilization existed before us? That's the question posited by the Silurian Hypothesis.

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

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

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

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Erich von Däniken proposed that monumental structures such as the pyramids could have been built with help from aliens. Stefan Baumann Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without ...

A blend of chemistry and molecular-biology techniques are enabling archaeologists to mine ancient sediments for clues about the people who once lived there. In 2019, environmental archaeologist David ...

In November, 2024, on the day of the U.S. Presidential election, Tim Whitmarsh landed in Beijing, jet-lagged and disoriented. It was the middle of the academic term at the University of Cambridge, ...