The Maya Civilization Collapsed 1,200 Years Ago. But Their Genes Never Stopped Spreading. Scientists redid an experiment that ...

Why societies fall apart isn’t politics or morals, an author argues—it’s cognitive failure, a pattern he says can be scientifically tested. Evil doesn’t take over societies by force or intelligence.

His book, “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations,” looks at the “golden ages” of Ancient Athens ...

Historian Johan Norberg suggests that without constructive action, the United States faces the risk of a decline experienced by so many great civilizations throughout history. In his work, “Peak Human ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

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 ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...