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

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 ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had contemplated the existence of life beyond Earth. As our technology matured and we ...

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 ...