Science news articles about 'ancient civilization'

... painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was buried under volcanic ash more than 3,500 years ago. ...

... 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian ... them would open a window onto a civilization that lived more than 4,000 years ago. ...

Men of the ancient civilization in Mexico carried ancestral thighbones as status symbols, new grave excavations suggest.

... even heard of them. But you will soon have the chance to experience musical instruments familiar to ancient civilizations but long since forgotten. Ancient instruments probably got lost because they ...

The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a new study found.

... ) - Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities.

... of pharmacy traces its roots back thousands of years to plants growing on Earth's continents, used by ancient civilizations for medicinal purposes, Fenical added. Yet only in the past 30 years have ...

Ancient civilizations preferred to settle along the edges of earthquake-prone regions

... model to fill in missing symbols on damaged archaeological artifacts. Such filled-in texts can increase the pool of data available for deciphering the writings of ancient civilizations, Rao said.