The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

As classists, we frequently find ourselves informing family members that we don’t spend our days reading Charles Dickens. However, it never fails to impress them that we can indeed read Homer in the ...

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...

The international seminar on "The Formation of Classical Literary and Artistic Works in Chinese and Western Civilizations" was held in Athens on Thursday, bringing together more than 60 Chinese and ...

Interested in digging deeper into the study of classical civilization at DePauw? The opportunities extend far beyond the classroom. Learn more about how you can benefit from our state-of-the-art ...