Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

A Symbol of Social Stratification? The positioning of the mummy in a garbage dump rather than a burial site raises important questions about the Caral civilization’s social structure. While most ...

Most early civilizations, the Sumerians, Egyptians and Harappans among them, had social ... other ancient societies, he does draw a comparison with classical Greece’s oikos family structure ...

“All of these things point to both a governance structure that was ... how sustainable it is.” But ancient cities and civilizations do help untangle which social and economic factors promote ...

Through it all, Chaco Canyon maintains a desolate beauty and a craggy pride as home to one of ancient America ... “Huge pronouncements about Chaco social structure are being made based on ...

A 90-foot “pyramid” submerged just off the coast of Japan is turning heads — and could shake up everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. Sitting 82 feet below sea level ...

Known as Cerro El Cono, this massive, pyramid-shaped formation is cloaked in mystery due to both its striking structure ... ruins of an ancient pyramid built by a long forgotten civilization ...

Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous philosophies that are still studied today. The civilization ... until the 1300s that the structure was mostly finished.