From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

Archaeological discoveries in China, including fire traces from 50,000 years ago and the grid-planned capital of the Xia ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

What do the Rosetta Stone, Koh-i-Noor diamond and Elgin Marbles all have in common? They're all dazzling objects that bear the history of early civilization — and all were taken by colonizers and ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five 5th-century stone reliefs of human faces belonging to the ancient Tartessian culture of the 8th–4th centuries B.C.E. The two most complete of these ...

This video offers a clear and concise overview of the history of Islam, from its origins to its early expansion. It explains key events, figures, and developments that shaped both the faith and the ...