Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

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And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have become permanently lost to time ...

At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the Hittite civilization ... (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) “They were able to fight the Egyptians ...

The impact that other civilizations have had on the Maya is just beginning to be understood, researchers say. Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization’s abrupt ...

The billionaire, who has fathered 14 children with four different women, has long argued that dwindling fertility rates pose a far greater threat than even climate ... collapse due to low birth rates ...

Combining sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation, the ancient “milpa” system of the Maya revealed ...

Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.