The otherworldly beasts and enigmatic masks of Sanxingdui still enthrall China, decades after the unearthing of ceremonial ...

Up to 3 million people once lived here. The jungle hid their monuments for 2,000 years.

Martti Pärssinen, lead author of the study, said the discovery changes scientists’ understanding of the “supposedly pristine ...

New research conducted using airborne laser scanning reveals that a multicultural civilization that flourished in ...

Scientists recently discovered hundreds of monumental, geometric earthworks known as "geoglyphs" in northern Brazil from the ...

When you think of the Amazon, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of a wilderness completely untouched by ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a ...

Some ancient cities disappeared beneath volcanic ash. Others were swallowed by jungle, buried under desert sands, or slowly ...

New airborne laser scans surveying the Amazon have found ancient human structures rewriting the history of this allegedly ...

The University of Wyoming prepares students for life in an increasingly global world. The Classics minor program provides students with an understanding of Classical Greek and Roman civilizations, ...