Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 8,000 years ago, many civilizations thrived on plains that are now submerged by the North and Baltic seas. Now, scientists ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

While the monumental stone pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica often dominate our understanding of ancient urban centers, the landscape of the Mississippi River Valley holds its own remarkable, though ...

Even long before the days of the world's oldest civilizations, humans were creating settlements and even building impressive, beautiful structures. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Pre-Pottery ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Archaeologists believe the sudden destruction of a pre-Columbian civilization found in southern Illinois occurred around 1150 AD. But to find the ...