During the first part of the two-part special event, viewers tuning in will learn more about the brutal assassination that ...

The story of one of the world’s most powerful civilizations comes to life this week with the two-night premiere of “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” on History Channel. The special event begins ...

Historian and philosopher Will Durant, author of the epic 11-volume series "The Story of Civilization," famously said, "From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to ...

Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to understand why and how civilizations collapse. They've found that symptoms like a ...

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 ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

The mysterious collapse of the Maya civilization may not have been driven solely by drought after all. New evidence from lake sediments in Guatemala reveals that one key city, Itzan, enjoyed a stable ...