Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins ... tiles and paintings. Many homes didn’t have a bathroom. There were public baths, but most people washed using a small bucket or in a nearby stream.

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

It is no coincidence that the words city, citizen and civilisation are all cognates. It was only after the Neolithic Revolution, starting about 10,000 years ago, that humans developed agriculture and ...