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Spacefaring civilizations are usually imagined as technological giants, centuries or millennia beyond anything humanity has ...

Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time than many of us learned in school. As archaeologists debate mysterious ...

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Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...