Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

These ancient cities serve as windows into the past, preserving the stories, architecture, and traditions of Asia's diverse civilizations. It’s easy to say that these cities have withstood the ...

In Southeast Asia, the influence of India’s Hinduism ... not only helped shape ancient civilizations but laid the foundation for the modern world we know.

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia ... uncovering civilizations from Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties ...

From the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia to ... landscapes that benefit from this part of the world's humidity, ...

He argued that these ancient civilizations were the ancestors to Europeans and the ones primarily responsible for contemporary western civilization—not people living in other parts of Africa and Asia.

Historian and Asia expert Peter Lee travels across Southeast Asia to explore the untold stories of four massive empires that changed the course of history. Peter Lee travels to Japan to explore ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece ... to the study of early civilizations in Western Asia and ...

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients – some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia – to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analysis of containers ...