By Liv Smith, Staff Writer On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the College hosted Dr. Erin Hanses of Penn State University for a lecture ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

WKU faculty, staff and students gathered Friday afternoon to learn about women in ancient history. The annual Genderations ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Anthropologist Stephen D. Houston has been tapped as the lecturer of the 72nd edition of the A.W. Mellon lecture series. Stephen D. Houston of Brown University will deliver the 72nd A. W. Mellon ...

Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

INDIANA, USA — What a sight it must have been in ancient times to see a total solar or lunar eclipse. Over the centuries, astronomers were able to predict days of when eclipses would happen, and now ...

In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the wreck of an ancient Roman ship loaded with treasure that had sunk more than 2,000 ...

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 ...