History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...
New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...
When you think about climate disasters, your mind probably goes to hurricanes or wildfires. Maybe you picture melting ice ...
Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...
What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human extinction, and even “existential risk”? That ...