A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis considers Israel to be the root of Western civilization, and says that without Judaism and Christianity, ...

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization. Today, much of that land is turning to dust. By Alissa J. Rubin Photographs and Video by Bryan ...

(Buried for 4,000 years, this ancient culture could expand the 'Cradle of Civilization'.) Commerce was one way cuneiform spread, but scholars believe that conquest was another. Sumerian cities ...

New data provided by technology developed at Purdue University has determined that fossils from the Cradle of Humankind are much older than previously thought. The technology was used on fossils and ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

The ancient city of Knossos was the place that ‘gave birth’ to the very first civilization of Europe – the Minoans. Celestyal’s tour to one of Europe’s most important archaeological treasures opens up ...