Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

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A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

near the German border Sonja Anderson In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia ...

weren’t seas at all. Instead, they were vast plains that were home to ancient human civilizations. But as the curtain drew to a close on the last Ice Age, water levels rose and inundated these ...