Have you heard of these seven ancient disasters in America that changed history? Prepare to have your mind blown.

However, the researchers said, the disaster could have generated an oral tradition that may have served as the inspiration for the written account in the book of Genesis, as well as the biblical ...

From the collapse of the Mayans to the North American megafauna extinctions, humans have been causing environmental disasters since the dawn of time.

There are numerous historical, religious and mythic accounts of ancient civilizations being wiped out by volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and meteors. Did god, or nature bring about such disasters ...

Ancient Antioch Survived Many Disasters in Its 2,400 Years—Then Turkey’s Earthquake Obliterated It Now known as Antakya, the former Roman metropolis has lost priceless landmarks of its ...

There are two things everybody knows about Roman Empire: that it was an invincible superpower, and that when it fell, it fell hard. Usually the death of ...

Philippine Studies: Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints, Vol. 64, No. 3/4, Special Double Issue: Disasters in History (sept-dec 2016), pp. 641-656 (16 pages) This concluding article identifies some ...

A boulder weighing more than 40 tonnes sits on the sand high above the ocean. Dwarfing every other rock in view, it is conspicuously out of place. The answer to how this massive outlier got here lies ...