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Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization.

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The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

In 2000 BCE, a civilization in the Americas faced a century-long drought by relocating strategically to nearby places.

When severe drought forced the residents of Caral to evacuate their city some 4,200 years ago, they adapted to new climate ...

And so the clarification is plant-based traditions are native to Texas, to southern Texas. If you look back 10,000 years, the ...

Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

In the works for decades, the massive, often overwhelming museum has finally opened to the public, displaying a trove of ...