Ancient World
Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro: The Famous Indus Bronze Figure
The statuette became one of the most famous works of Indus art and a key example of early lost-wax metal casting.
All Articles
Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Ancient World
Gallic Sack of Rome (390 BC) and the Battle of the Allia
The Gauls defeated the Roman army, sacked Rome except the Capitol and left after receiving a ransom in gold; Rome recovered and built stronger walls.
Ancient World
Griffin Warrior Tomb (c. 1450 BC): Bronze Age Riches at Pylos
One of the richest intact Bronze Age graves found in Greece in decades, showing how early Mycenaean elites adopted Minoan art and ideas.
Ancient World
Mummification in Ancient Egypt: Methods, Beliefs and History
Artificial mummification became the standard Egyptian way of preparing the dead for eternity and lasted until the spread of Christianity.
Ancient World
Urukagina's Reforms in Lagash: The First Recorded Reforms
Urukagina's decrees curbed officials' fees and abuses and protected the weak, but Lagash fell to Lugalzagesi of Umma within about a decade.
Prehistory
Gobero: Prehistoric Cemetery of the Green Sahara in Niger
Gobero became the largest and best-documented Stone Age cemetery in the Sahara, recording two successive cultures and 5,000 years of climate change.
Prehistory
Nabta Playa: Prehistoric Stone Circle in the Egyptian Sahara
A seasonal meeting place of Saharan herders whose megaliths and cattle burials are among the earliest ceremonial monuments in Africa.
Prehistory
Blombos Cave: Engraved Ochre and the Earliest Known Drawing
Finds at Blombos Cave, published from 2001 onwards, became central evidence that Homo sapiens in Africa made abstract designs, ornaments and pigments tens of thousands of years before the cave art of Ice Age Europe.
Prehistory
Taung Child: Raymond Dart and the First Australopithecus Fossil
Dart named a new genus and species, Australopithecus africanus; rejected for two decades, it was accepted as a human relative by the late 1940s.
Prehistory
Megalodon: The Giant Prehistoric Shark and Its Extinction
The largest known predatory shark dominated the world's oceans for some 20 million years before going extinct around 3.6 million years ago.
Prehistory
Acasta Gneiss: Canada's 4-Billion-Year-Old Rock Formation
The Acasta Gneiss became the oldest securely dated intact rock on Earth, showing that evolved crust existed by about 4 billion years ago.
Modern Era
Broad Street Cholera Outbreak (1854): John Snow and the Pump
The outbreak killed 616 people; John Snow linked it to a contaminated public water pump, strengthening the case that cholera spreads through water.