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.

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

Let’s see how if alien civilizations will ever reach us. Half of the universe is filled with expansionist alien civilizations, and it’s only a matter of time before they’ll reach us. OK, that sounded ...