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UH archeologists Arlen and Diane Chase uncovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of the Maya city of Caracol, ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how they perceived the passage of time Vanessa Crooks The latest stages of ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...

Two University of Houston professors' discovery of a Mayan ruler's tomb was named one of the top 10 finds of 2025 by Archaeology Magazine. UH Provost Diane Chase and her husband, anthropology ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ...

The little-known city of Chochkitam, located in northeast Guatemala’s dense rainforest near the border with Belize and Mexico, was last photographed by archaeologists some 100 years ago. In 2024, ...

Donald Trump has claimed that mass migration has put Western civilization itself in danger, suggesting Europe is particularly at risk. The president’s administration has released a 33-page dossier ...

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US President Donald Trump's administration has warned that Europe faces "civilisational erasure" and questioned whether certain nations can remain reliable allies, in a new strategy document that puts ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...