There's a little thrill that comes when you read about people from long-vanished worlds. Their ruins whisper, their myths ...

From ancient Greece to the Mayan civilization, each birth date has unique soulful connections to the ancient world.

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

Water has memory they say and what would it reveal if someone followed its ways? Fortunately, the most remarkable heritage sites of antique societies are dotted along the coastlines and riverbanks of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

Indiana Jones wannabes, your time has come. A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

War may not end civilizations, but it irreversibly alters them by shattering the cultural memory that sustains their identity ...