Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians ... queries about the quixotic quests of the people covered in the ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax ... continent Eli Wizevich The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

It is hard to over-state the importance of rivers to the story of our civilization. It’s not just the fresh water that’s so important... Ancient Rivers, like the Nile, had a kind of heartbeat ...

Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the waves have shaped our world.

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

As a series that portrays the adventures of ... With most submerged cities come ancient civilizations, and interestingly, most ancient civilizations seem to have one thing or another to do with ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began ... A small but revolutionary group pursued a new idea: That civilization began in the ancient Middle East. In 1919, Breasted ...