This video traces Iran’s earliest civilizations, beginning with the Elamites and moving through the rise of the Achaemenid ...

DNA research is shedding new light on the mysterious ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and their counterparts on the Greek mainland, the Mycenaeans. The civilizations were Europe’s ...

In the Yellow River valley of northern China, Zhichun Jing digs through the remains of long-ago cities to find insights for modern survival. Over the past 10 years, Jing has been excavating the cities ...

New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

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Miss WINIFRED LAMB'S account of her third season of excavation at Kusuru, south-west of Afyon Karahissar in Anatolia, which was given before the Society of Antiquaries of London on November 17, ...

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Paul Boyer, Galactic Civilizations III's lead designer, is tired. It's a good kind of tired, though, and the end is in sight. He's been running around putting out minor fires, "Oh crap, this one ...

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