New research indicates that collective forms of governance were more likely.
Articles on Ancient civilisations
Displaying all articles
Historically, what made eclipses politically dangerous was the speculation often attached to them.
From dogs to snakes, people have been keeping pets for millennia. Here’s what people in ancient civilisations thought about their furry (or scaled, or feathered) friends.
A new study reveals the most complex numeric connection ever made between two khipus. It could help lead us to even more clues about ancient Andean society.
The ancient evidence suggests Alexander was particularly close with one of his male companions. But how close exactly?
Machu Picchu is now an iconic tourist destination in Peru – but it was once a royal palace that pulled people from all corners of the Inca empire.
ChatGPT threatens to change writing as we know it. But the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, went through this kind of seismic change before us, when they invented writing.
The Maya would have had to obtain mercury from far locations, transporting it by foot hundreds of kilometres across present-day Central America.
Heritage sites are sources of historical pride, indigenous knowledge and cultural identity.
Top contributors
-
Associate Researcher, University of Hamburg
-
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
-
Associate Professor in Geography, Australian Catholic University
-
Professor, University of Cincinnati
-
Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
-
PhD candidate in Genetic Anthropology, Adelaide University
-
Centennial Professor of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin
-
Senior Research Fellow in Geography, UCL
-
Lecturer in Classics, University of Tasmania
-
Senior Research Data Specialist, Melbourne Data Analytic Platform (MDAP), The University of Melbourne
-
Research Fellow in Early Modern History, University of Oxford
-
Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
-
Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY