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 ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

This episode explores the eerie question: how does an entire civilization just disappear? From thriving cities to complex cultures, we trace societies that rose to real power and then went silent, ...

A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

Moments of sociopolitical tumult have a way of generating all-encompassing explanatory histories. These chronicles either indulge a sense of decline or applaud our advances. The appetite for such ...

The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ...