While gold and silver have long been symbols of wealth and power, in ancient China, these precious metals carried a much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence of how an ancient civilization survived a drought in atypical ways. The civilization apparently predates the Inca, the Maya, and the Aztecs, and withstood a ...

Both Egypt and China have such long histories; their ancient cultures are often compared. For example, China's Shang Dynasty ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...