Volubilis, Lixus, two names of ancient cities in Morocco that speak for themselves. Le Guide du Routard, Le Guide Vert, Lonely Planet, Le Petit Futé, all these travel guides to the kingdom feature ...

From the Rosetta Stone and the Antikythera Mechanism to ancient letters and mathematical manuscripts, discover 15 historic ...

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 ...

Around 1200 BCE, some of the most powerful civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean began to experience extraordinary upheaval. Cities were destroyed, trade networks faltered, and kingdoms that had ...

There is a certain romance to speleology, the study of caves, if you can see past the cold and the damp and the dark. Caves are ancient and often beautiful places. And they can be useful. Rock ...

For thousands of years, ancient civilizations constructed extraordinary underground tunnel systems for defense, water ...

A Lost Civilization or a Successor Civilization?In July 2026, research published in the scientific journal Nature suggested the possibility that an ancient civilization of a scale exceeding previous a ...

What hidden knowledge lies in our ancient past? A team of renowned scholars has come together to go beyond the surface-level myths, artifacts, and mysteries found in ancient texts and lost cities from ...

When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

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 ...