Many places around the world have been destroyed and rebuilt by their inhabitants, but some remain lost to time because of massive disasters. When we think of ancient disasters in America, our minds ...

Archaeologists excavated a muddy canal in the Netherlands and found ancient Roman artifacts and wood posts from after a flood, officials said. Photo from the Municipality of Utrecht Digging into the ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out ...

ANTAKYA, Turkey—Once the third-largest city in the Roman empire, Antakya has withstood the rise and fall of civilizations for 2,400 years, building back after wars, sieges and plagues. Now it faces a ...

Famous natural disasters in the ancient world A number of natural disasters involving earthquakes and tsunamis were especially famous in ancient Greek and Roman times. In 464 BC, in Sparta, there was ...

March 7, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study. Some of those dates make me think of the Late Bronze Age collapse, I wonder if there is a connection to be explored ...