Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a ...

The global launch of an upcoming exhibition at Shanghai Museum, On Top of the World Tree: Ancient Civilizations of the Americas, was held in Shanghai on May 8. [Gao Erqiang/China Daily] Shanghai ...

Trash tells truth: Refuse from African sites shows unpolished details of daily life, from food scraps to tools, that grand monuments do not capture. New archaeological finds: A 2,400-year-old ...

Archaeologists have translated Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from 720 B.C.E. detailing rare royal rituals and king lists, while Ice Age stone tools from China show advanced craftsmanship by an ...

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 ...