This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as ...

From the tenth to the fifteenth centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including Western ...

Dawn DeDeaux’s exhibition The Space Between Worlds, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through Jan. 23, confronts our current climate crisis, peering into a future in which humanity must flee a ...

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 ...

Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. He writes, produces, and hosts the Fall of Civilizations podcast which ...

Charles Bryant is a Greenwood-based chef and co-founder of Grafton Peek Catering and Hartwell’s Premium salad dressing. His ...

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

Pt. 1. The price of food. The three gorges dam -- chapter 1. Fairs: the food trade -- chapter 2. Larders: what do you do with ten thousand tons of grain? -- chapter 3. Farms: growing food for profit ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Deep in the heart of Crete, where myth intertwines with ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a real-time strategy game where players can directly control individual units. Sean ...