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.

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

The Aztec civilization was deeply spiritual, with a vast pantheon of gods influencing every aspect of life. Their religion was built on a balance between creation and destruction, embodied by deities ...

Simon Park, who teaches Portuguese history and literature at Oxford University, aims to recast the early period of European exploration as a story of disasters rather than successes. His target is ...

The study doesn’t stop at Rome and China. It also compares these findings with other ancient civilizations, such as the Aztec Empire in 1492, which, according to the data, was even more extractive ...

The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in 1519 marked the decline of the Aztec Empire, influenced by both military conflict and religious beliefs. Today, many Mexicans still honor their Aztec heritage.

the early Islamic empires, the Inca empire, and the post-classic Maya; the archaeology of slavery; the symbolic significances of places, the construction and use of ritual and funerary landscapes and ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars ...

Mexico’s Aztec civilization developed the wheel but used it as a ... Despite their sophisticated culture, the Incas never perfected the use of the wheel. The Inca Empire included the second-highest ...