The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

The exhibition titled Networks of the Past: A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration ...

When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Ancient civilisations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in managing water resources, integrating a blend of hydraulic engineering, urban planning and socio‐cultural practices to support densely ...

Despite its relative proximity to the Pacific Ocean, South America’s Atacama Desert is so arid that scientists use it to simulate conditions on Mars. Yet a thousand years ago, farmers grew crops there ...