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

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

Easter Island is home to more than 1,000 massive stone statues—but the story behind them remains unclear. Built by a civilization that later collapsed, the Moai were transported across rugged terrain ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has issued a stark warning that humanity stands a slim chance of surviving another ...

The findings suggest a sharp reduction in the local population followed by the arrival of entirely new groups from the south. The burial site itself spans the period from approximately 3200 to 2450 BC ...

US President Donald Trump dismissed the threat posed by Iran's "little wise-guy ships" and told reporters that he believed ...

As the Iran crisis spirals back out of control, it’s a big day for the president of the United States: His official schedule ...

If global civilization seizes up, whether from cascading climate disruption, a mass extinction event, or the sudden loss of ...

President Donald Trump renewed sweeping threats against Iran on Sunday, warning that “the whole country is going to get blown up” if Tehran does not sign a deal, as tensions intensified following the ...

The unverified claim that General Caine blocked Trump's nuclear strike on Iran is being investigated by fact-checkers. Learn ...

What defines a contemporary Western nation? Most of the shared characteristics of these otherwise ethnically and ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...