This episode explores the eerie question: how does an entire civilization just disappear? From thriving cities to complex ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

From the Eiffel Tower's first colors to the original Penn Station, explore how iconic landmarks worldwide looked in the past ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

For generations, Manhera Shrestha’s family has cultivated the same ancestral land in Khokana, an ancient settlement perched ...

Known as the Colossi of Memnon, the statues of Amenhotep III both stand at more than 40 feet tall. Experts have been working ...

Turkey is known as the Crossroads of the World because it connects Europe and Asia through geography, global trade routes, ...

The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ...

Deep in China's mountains, ancient melodies echo once more, intertwining with contemporary rhythms. In villages and fields, ...

The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

Though our political, socio-economic world operates according to the dictates of rapacity, many continue to deny the existence of rape culture; a denial ...

In some of the ancient civilizations each year was designated with a label rather than a number. For example, there was a Year of the Locust, a Year of the Flood, or a Year of Golden Harvest.