The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Survey of the earliest civilization with emphasis placed upon the contribution of the Hellenic, Roman, and Medieval eras to the west. Continues to the close of the Middle Ages. Stress is placed on ...

Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, ...

When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

In 2024, we use many everyday objects so often that we barely notice them. While we have access to incredible technology like ...