Perhaps the most dire prediction right-wingers made in the first 15 years of this century was that legalizing marriage between two people of the same sex would end civilization. No less than the pope ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing body of climate research now points to a simpler, starker driver: water, and ...

This figure shows the settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization during different phases of its evolution. RIT Assistant Professor Nishant Malik developed a mathematical method that shows climate ...

I love finding, playing, and sharing videogames that involve ancient history. Whether it's sailing the seas of the Aegean in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, making tactical decisions in Total War, or even ...

The final days of the Roman Empire are a fascinating read, but they are difficult to like, followed as they are by a period of time renowned for the regression of civilization. For the same reason, ...

The turn-based strategy game has two Ph.D. historians on the design team and a palpable appreciation of cultures across the globe. It also maintains a deeply colonialist worldview. By Rollo Romig You ...

Something terrible happened to the world of The Legend of Korra some time after the fall of villains like Zaheer and Kuvira. The fallout will be examined in the upcoming Avatar: Seven Havens project, ...

Part 1. Prologue. Some problems posed -- Geography and environment -- Language and population -- Physical appearance and psychological traits -- Search and research -- Dating Maya history and the ...