Category: 9. Environment

Archaeologists conducting a study to estimate the maximum productivity of the land around Palmyra are revealing new insights that questions the historical narrative.

Palmya is located in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds…

For thousands of years, the people of North Eastern Africa have relied on the Nile River as their primary source of life sustaining water.

One of the longest rivers in the world, the Nile flows for over 4100 miles from Lake Victoria to the…

An extended period of turmoil in the Maya city of Mayapan in Mexico was marked by population declines, political rivalries and civil conflict.

Between AD 1441 and 1461 the strife reached an unfortunate crescendo — the complete institutional…

Melting ice patches across Norway are revealing archaeological treasures from thousands of years ago that are under threat from climate change.

In recent years, hundreds of discoveries have been made that shows traces of ancient hunting, trapping,…

Extreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar.

Combined with political unrest and war, the droughts left behind a region in disarray, thereby creating the conditions on the Arabian peninsula that…

Were Neanderthals really as well adapted to a life in the cold as previously assumed, or did they prefer more temperate environmental conditions during the last Ice Age?

To answer these questions, it is worthwhile to examine Neanderthal sites on…

Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new…

Current global climatic warming is having, and will continue to have, widespread consequences for human history, in the same way that environmental fluctuations had significant consequences for human populations in the past.

The so-called ‘8.2…

A study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in Science Advances, upends the previously accepted theory on why the Vikings abandoned Greenland.

Greenland, or Grœnland in Old Norse, was settled by Norwegian and…