Civilizations have recognized the power of cities to heat themselves up and cool themselves for centuries. City architects in ancient Rome called for narrowing streets to lessen late afternoon ...

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 ...

This video challenges the traditional academic timeline of human civilization, exploring evidence that suggests humans may have developed advanced societies far earlier than 6000 BC. From the ...

Ancient civilizations accomplished feats of engineering that continue to challenge modern understanding. Despite advances ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment ...