They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

One gallery is devoted to the world’s first empire, the Akkadian dynasty, which united Ur, Mari and other cities and flourished from 2300 to 2159 b.c., until it collapsed back into independent ...

Smith would go on to become the world's leading expert in the ancient Akkadian language and its ... history of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire and publish pathbreaking translations of ...

Farmers have used methods of composting since the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago ... Some may speculate that the point of advancing our technology is to forego the need for ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed ... Climate has been implicated in everything from the collapse of the Akkadian Empire to the turmoil of the French Revolution.

However, it's essential to recognize that the term "empire" is a foreign concept, and its meaning has evolved. While ancient Chinese texts during the Sui Dynasty (581–618) did use a term ...