His book, “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations,” looks at the “golden ages” of Ancient Athens, Ancient Rome, Song China, the Abbasid Dynasty in Baghdad, Renaissance ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress.

A new study reveals how ships guided ancient civilizations through crisis, helping regions trade, defend, and endure the ...

New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

For centuries, Europe has brought the progress of other men to a halt and enslaved them for its own purposes and glory; for ...

A new, three-part National Geographic series called Guns, Germs and Steel debuts Monday night on PBS. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, the presentation looks at why some ...

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. xxxii, 314. Illus., maps, personae, notes, biblio., index. $32.00 / £28.00. ISBN:0691192138 How Civilizations ...

The collapse of a crucial network of Atlantic Ocean currents could push parts of the world into a deep freeze, with winter temperatures plunging to around minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities, ...