Watching the celebrations for the inauguration of the New York City mayor, my mind suddenly turned back to my intellectual ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is one of the new leaders in the ...

What are the best games like Civilization? As the undisputed king of 4X games, there are many who've tried to copy what Sid Meier created and plenty who want to play a Civ-like experience that wasn't ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

From Athens to the Abbasids to today’s Anglosphere, creativity and commerce drive greatness Ninth century Baghdad, seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was designed as a perfect circle to honor the Greek ...

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society destroyed by Rome Cool Finds The year’s most exciting discoveries included the ...