Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to ...

The mysterious collapse of the Maya civilization may not have been driven solely by drought after all. New evidence from lake sediments in Guatemala reveals that one key city, Itzan, enjoyed a stable ...

New research explores how technological civilizations grow, collapse, and recover, and what this means for detecting ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major cities were destroyed, whole civilizations fell, diplomatic and trade ...

From the rise of Cahokia to the collapse of the Roman Empire, ancient civilizations reveal patterns of innovation, resilience, and decline. Their stories hold warnings about environmental ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and whose name graces a unit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump warns a “whole civilization” could die as his deadline for Iran to strike a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz ...