Tag: ancient civilisations
10 Cliff Dwellings of the Ancient Pueblos
The Puebloans or Pueblos were an ancient Native American culture that emerged in AD 100 across Utah and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Kincaid Mounds – The Mound Metropolis of Illinois
The Kincaid Mounds is an ancient tribal centre of the Mississippian culture that built a large settlement comprising of raised mounds, in the present-day state of Illinois near the banks of the Ohio River, in the United States.
Who Were the Sea People?
During the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, civilisations across the Near East, Aegean, Anatolia, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and the Eastern Mediterranean collapsed and vanished off the map.
Akrotiri – The Ancient Town Buried by a Volcano
Akrotiri is an archaeological site and a Cycladic Bronze Age town, located on the Greek island of Santorini (Thera) near the present-day village of Akrotiri (for which the prehistoric site is named).
Population boom and droughts contributed to collapse of ancient Assyrian Empire
Researchers see parallels between decline of Assyrian civilisation and today’s turmoil in Syria and Iraq.
Ancient Europeans intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture
Through the analysis of DNA extracted from the petrous bones of skulls of ancient Europeans, scientists have identified that these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (natural sugar in the milk of mammals) for 5,000 years after they implemented agricultural practices and 4,000 years after the onset of cheese-making among Central European Neolithic farmers.