I see a pattern emerging in these debates, not of secret lost empires, but of how incomplete our record really is and how quickly complex societies can disappear without a trace. The latest clues, ...

One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating what life and extraterrestrial civilizations will look like. Invariably, we ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - believed to be the oldest in the world. Ongoing investigations by Turkish, British and other archaeologists in ...