China’s Bronze Age laid the foundations for one of the world’s longest lasting civilizations. Advanced metallurgy, ritual systems, and long distance trade created powerful early states. These ...

While archaeologists were recently examining Neanderthal remains in the Spanish Pyrenees, a very different discovery has now stolen the spotlight: a mysterious medieval community that lived for ...

Long before classical Greece, the Cycladic islands formed one of the earliest and most influential maritime cultures in the Mediterranean. This chapter traces their rise from Neolithic seafarers to ...

Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Public Void’s PSX-inspired indie platformer Valkyrie Saga launches today on Steam, inviting players into a haunting, post-cataclysmic world.

Firaxis has three in-house historians who do research for the games, but often hires outside consultants in areas where their ...

Now, the planets of Tau Andromeda are overgrown with wildlife, nature reclaiming the skyscrapers of a once-advanced ...

Believe it or not, Kansas is a stellar vacation destination. This is a state that knows how to surprise you if you give it half a chance. The Flint Hills roll on forever like a European countryside ...

America’s story is true myth. For 250 years, we have attacked the earth, sky, sea, and space, not to conquer or control but ...

Priya Parker, the author of “The Art of Gathering,” shares her advice for orchestrating more meaningful gatherings and why ...

In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends ...