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

As it happens, the entrance to the Classics department was only about 20 metres from the entrance to the East Asia faculty ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

A new study shows how a long river drought triggered a metamorphosis of Harappan civilization, reshaping settlements as ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Ancient civilizations could have benefited, and at times suffered from belonging to an interconnected global economy, according to evidence presented in a newly-published study. The international team ...

As classists, we frequently find ourselves informing family members that we don’t spend our days reading Charles Dickens. However, it never fails to impress them that we can indeed read Homer in the ...