One of the few benefits of being an anthropologist is the uncanny exhilaration one feels watching novel current events ...

The ancient Maya and Aztecs had detailed calendars that celebrated New Year's Eve at different times, with traditions to mark ...

Alexander the Great, a young Macedonian king, forged an unparalleled empire through relentless ambition and military genius, ...

An Egyptian-American team unearthed a large royal tomb for an unknown king belonging to the mysterious Abydos Dynasty, a ...

How politics throws up change of society appears scientific, spiritual and magical. That is exactly what human progress has been. Change could appear as religious upheaval, socio-economic and ...

San Diego State has put itself into an unenviable and unusual position. The Aztecs are going to have to win the Mountain West Conference to get a spot in the NCAA Tournament because their ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

What are the best games like Civilization? As the undisputed king of 4X games, there are many who've tried to copy what Sid Meier created and plenty who want to play a Civ-like experience that wasn't ...

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A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?