Recent emphasis on climate science has impacted how we think about ancient civilizations. Long-held theories about the collapse of ancient civilizations are starting to change. Climate change wasn't ...

Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of ...

When you think about climate disasters, your mind probably goes to hurricanes or wildfires. Maybe you picture melting ice caps. Thing is, climate catastrophes have been wiping civilizations off the ...

His book, “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations,” looks at the “golden ages” of Ancient Athens ...

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland? Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August 2021. This ...

What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human extinction, and even “existential risk”? That ...