Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilizations. He was right in some respects: civilizations are ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. ...

Cooper, 35, was born in south London and grew up in Wales. He began writing the first episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast in October 2018. At that point, he was a graduate student in ...

While the world remembers Rome, Egypt, and China as lasting superpowers, many other extraordinary civilizations flourished, each with the potential to dominate their era and beyond. Some built vast ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

During the civilization's peak ... how did this successful empire with its stories of a mythical king eventually fall? During Midas' reign, a tribe known as the Cimmerians invaded the country.

Ahmed offers a massive effort to synthesize huge amounts of scientific literature across the natural and social sciences to provide a new theory of the rise and fall of civilizations. He argues ...

“not only survived but thrived within the same drought conditions” that contributed to the fall of the Maya civilization in the 8th century. And the Maya, before that point, had weathered five ...