Human civilization stands a 90 per cent chance of an 'irreversible collapse' within decades as a result of deforestation, physicists claim. It is thought that within the next two to four decades Earth ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major cities were destroyed, whole civilizations fell, diplomatic and trade ...

Recent emphasis on climate science has impacted how we think about ancient civilizations. Long-held theories about the collapse of ancient civilizations are starting to change. Climate change wasn't ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

The collapse of human civilization is now 'inevitable', according to a scholar who's combed through 5,000 years of history. Dr Luke Kemp of the University of Cambridge has exposed clear and alarming ...

An Egyptian-American team unearthed a large royal tomb for an unknown king belonging to the mysterious Abydos Dynasty, a ...

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 ...

NEW RESEARCH speculates why aliens have never visited Earth – and it could spell danger for mankind. Researchers posit that alien civilizations could be doomed to either stagnate or die before they ...

Though today it is a wilderness, in the time of the Maya, the Central American lowlands they called home would have looked far different. Where emerald jungle canopies roll for miles on end, cities, ...

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