Taking in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, Azamara’s 20-night Ancient Trade Routes itinerary traces an oceanic trade network almost as old as human civilization itself.

Archaeologists note that around the year 2,900 B.C., a “darkened Sun” would’ve been only one of the worries of these ancient people—DNA suggests that plague was also running rampant ...

He and his colleagues say that burying the carvings could have been an attempt to get the sun back or a celebration after the skies did finally clear. How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts ...

causing a Neolithic Danish community to offer sun stones in the hope of bringing back the light and saving their crops. Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient object ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

Artem Shuba via Unsplash Nearly 5,000 years ago, if the ground rumbled and the sky grew dark, it would be impossible for ancient agricultural ... to bring back the sun. On the island of Bornholm ...

the sun was central to the agricultural societies of Neolithic Northern Europe. These early farmers depended on sunlight for crop growth, making any prolonged solar obscurity terrifying. The sunstones ...