Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Beneath layers of earth, jungle, and ocean lie the forgotten stories of powerful civilizations—their cities lost to time, ...