Archaeologists have long suspected that climate can make or break a civilization, but the emerging picture of past “megadroughts” suggests something more severe: centuries-scale dry spells that can ...

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 ...

Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving complex engineering, architectural, and technological challenges using tools and methods that often seem impossibly sophisticated for ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

The Olmec people once lived along the southeast border of Mexico in what is now Veracruz. They are considered one of the most influential civilizations of Mesoamerica. Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

The pyramids and temples of Egypt, which still stand as magnificent monuments to ancient Egyptian civilization, were the result of some of the world's first urban planners—the ruling pharaohs who ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...