The Atlas of Ancient Rome, ed. Andrea Carandini, Princeton University Press, 2 vols., 1280 pages. Rome holds a special place in the tradition of Western urbanism. Its forms, its colors, and its layout ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

Daniel Pierce and Chris Bodine with the Missouri State University Center for Archaeological Research believe their findings ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Archaeologists recently rediscovered the long-hidden traces of an ancient Indigenous society in western Ecuador’s Upano Valley: more than 6,000 earthen platforms that once supported houses and ...

What would the collapse of civilization look like? We might immediately think of cutoff utilities, disruptions in the supply ...