Excavations at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey between 1995 and 2014 produced evidence of large-scale architectural planning that ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can unravel with startling speed, but a growing body of evidence suggests at least one ancient culture reached a level of sophistication that ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a ...

Flooding in the middle Yangtze river valley 4000 years ago, recorded by stalagmite calcium isotopes, coincides with the decline of the post-Shijiahe culture, highlighting that water-excess can be as ...