Across caves, jungles, and deserts, archaeologists are piecing together traces of societies that slipped from written history yet left unmistakable fingerprints in stone, bone, and buried ritual.

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 ...

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A 3,300-year-old mask found in Bahrain reveals new details about the ancient Dilmun civilization’s burial customs.

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While the world remembers Rome, Egypt, and China as lasting superpowers, many other extraordinary civilizations flourished, ...

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