The first sign of human civilization is empathy, compassion, caring for others. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of empathy in our world today — the war of aggression in Ukraine, ...

In consultation with Native Americans, the museum at the Homestead Monument continues to recognize the struggles and ...

By one estimate, measuring from the time of the first pharaohs and the use of hieroglyphic writing until its native religion was replaced by Christianity, the ancient Egyptian civilization endured ...

The Seeds of Civilization Why did humans first turn from nomadic wandering to villages and togetherness? The answer may lie in a 9,500-year-old settlement in central Turkey ...

Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your ...

The Assyrian civilization may have been the first to develop the optical lens, which led to telescopes, glasses, and more. Dating back to the 8th century BC, the Layard Lens was discovered in ...