Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time than many of us learned in school. As archaeologists debate mysterious ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

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