The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

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

A new book suggests 98 percent of the ideas and knowledge humans learned through history have been lost in time ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate's ...

A sportswear boss has put his money where his mouth is and challenged flat Earthers to convince him of their conspiracy ...

A breakthrough study claims to have solved the centuries-old mystery of why the Indus Valley Civilisation fell.

Insofar as the use of the words renew and revive, revival sounds better. Its like re-igniting a fire from the dying sparks of charcoal/deadwood. The fire is from around the hearth (sawdong ka lyngwiar ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Oct. 25, 2025 A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device on a single telescope—no multi-telescope array required. This ...