The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

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 ...

The film explores the history and culture of the ancient Maya civilization, tracing its origins to around 1500 BC in southern Mexico and Guatemala. It highlights the Maya's advancements in ...

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 ...

A series of lengthy droughts brought about the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

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 ...