Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of ...

Laser scans uncover hundreds of ancient earthworks beneath rainforest, reshaping understanding of Amazon's past.

The conventional narrative places Mesopotamia at the beginning of civilisation, followed by Egypt, Greece and Rome. India ...

Here, Adam recalls their conversation for BBC World Service programme CrowdScience: The Silurian hypothesis proposes that if there was a technologically advanced civilisation hundreds of millions of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week we polish up a tarnished idea and ask whether it's really as tarnished as all ...

Maritime historian Nick Collins argues that the Indian subcontinent, not Mesopotamia, is the cradle of civilisation. Citing ...

THE idea that we are living in a historic, even apocalyptic, age exerts a powerful pull on the human mind. Eschatology – the theology of end times – is a religious concept, but crops up in many other ...

India has rejected Pakistan's attempt to invoke the 5,000-year-old Indus Valley Civilisation to bolster its position in the ...

Looking at the ruins we can see many changes. The cities became overcrowded, with houses built on top of houses. Important buildings like the Great Bath at Mohenjo-Daro were built over. People stopped ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The 1969 groundbreaking Civilisation series took viewers on an extraordinary cultural tour through the centuries. Lisa Kerrigan examines its origins and later influence on television documentary.

Xi Jinping’s vision for a greener future was showcased at the UN biodiversity summit in Kunming this week, but what does it mean for China and the world? This week, China took charge of hosting a ...