Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in deference to the overwhelming ...

America, the powerhouse of the modern world, leads in technology, military, media, and more. Yet, many, including Americans, ...

Most historians agree that the advent of settled agriculture — the beginning of civilization as we know it — was a positive good for humankind, but not so says Kennedy.

Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European ...