It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilizations. He was right in some respects: civilizations are often responsible for their own decline. However, their self-destruction ...

Never forget that Darwin and Marx were creatures of the 19th century “Progressive” philosophy. They didn’t invent it. It was the European “zeitgeist” they grew up in. The self-anointed “intellectual” ...

Examination unveiled that the network had been created somewhere between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E. This is much before the rise of Mayan civilization. This revelation astounded the researchers ...

The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Civilization Explore the history of the Aztecs, their incredible achievements in art, architecture, and warfare, as well as the factors that led to their decline ...

Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before it mysteriously collapsed. Many myths and legends of Crete center ...

What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human ...

The Benson Center promotes study of the intellectual, artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization ... and have persisted through the fall of Rome, the rise of Christendom, ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...