Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

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The rise of early large cities, such as 12,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, fueled this demographic expansion. Human-associated bed bugs show less genetic diversity, reflecting their migration out of ...

"That growth is due to urbanization and it's a natural process all over the state," said Bawankule while replying to Gandhi's allegations. "Kamptee is now semi-urbanized with people shifting here.

The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens — which began with a series of small earthquakes in mid-March and peaked with a cataclysmic flank collapse, avalanche, and explosion on May 18 — was not the largest ...

Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon, of which she is the legendary founder. Edgar Degas’s mysterious, otherworldly 1861 painting at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, reveals how the ...

The City of Quinte West will be hosting its second public information centre for the 2nd Dug Hill Road urbanization project on June 17. The session will take place at Trent Port Marina from 4:30 ...

The Indus Valley people benefited from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade from nearby Mesopotamia. Two cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, once home to 40,000 to 50,000 ...

India's alcohol market is expected to top $50 billion by 2031, outpacing global demand, says IWSR. Whisky dominates, with Scotch demand likely to surge after UK free-trade pact ...

Drone photograph looking west showing several linear ridge features within the study area. Credit: P.J. Brown et al. The harshness of agricultural labor in these swampy lands may have been, according ...

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