There are over 7 billion people living on the earth right now. Tens of millions are born and die each year. Every single one ...

The first sign of human civilization is empathy, compassion, caring for others. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of empathy in our world today — the war of aggression in Ukraine, ...

But first, to start thinking about what evidence a past civilization may have left behind, let’s think about what our civilization will look like in the far future.

The Seeds of Civilization Why did humans first turn from nomadic wandering to villages and togetherness? The answer may lie in a 9,500-year-old settlement in central Turkey ...

BADAJOZ, Spain - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo have uncovered the first human representations of the ancient Tartessos people, shedding light on the ...

Civilizations don’t last forever. Just ask the Aztecs. Or the Maya. Or fans of the original Roman Empire. From the ancient Myceneans in the Mediterranean to the Anasazi in Arizona, societies ...

The first major city there was Uruk, the home of Gilgamesh, which at its height in 2900 B.C.E. may have had up to 80,000 residents. The Mesopotamians saw, in the moon’s waxing and waning, the ...

SANTIAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published, opens new tab in the Science journal ...