Relics that could be from the city of Canopus have been sitting at the bottom of a Mediterranean bay for almost two ...

To write his latest book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean joined a group of experimental archaeologists who learn by doing.

Archaeologists have made a startling discovery in Iraq with a potential to rewrite the known human history.Experts have found ...

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 ...

Archaeologists and scientists continue to debate whether humans were truly the first advanced civilization on Earth.

Beneath the sands of Pakistan, archaeologists uncovered a city of 40,000 souls, built at the dawn of civilization. Mohenjo Daro stood tall 4,000 years ago, then vanished without a trace ...

11 lost civilizations and how they might have fallen When ancient civilizations fall, the reasons for their demise often remain a mystery. But modern science has helped us paint a clearer picture ...

In the ancient Maya and Angkor civilizations, local resources were eventually strained. Now, deep wells bring water, while food and energy flow from sources that are often continents away.

(This article originally appeared in the Nov. 7, 2011 issue of Forbes magazine.) A review of 1491 by Charles Mann (Vintage Books, $16) First published in 2005 and now available in paperback with ...