This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as ...

A new, three-part National Geographic series called Guns, Germs and Steel debuts Monday night on PBS. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, the presentation looks at why some ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. In an article recently featured in ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a real-time strategy game where players can directly control individual units. Sean ...

You play as a survivor of the end of the world, creating your own story, controlling a faction of people you choose how you live in the new world and what the rules ...

This adage seems especially poignant at this moment with the twin conflicts that are playing out in the Western and Eastern hemispheres. For, this is not the first time we’ve witnessed the ...

A rally takes place at Jackson Square after a day of major victory for gay rights on June 26, 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married ...

This figure shows the settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization during different phases of its evolution. RIT Assistant Professor Nishant Malik developed a mathematical method that shows climate ...

Rise and Fall is a fun game that not only lets yu hold the reigns of a civilization, but also on the main hero that you have chosen to lead your army. Rise and Fall allows you to create civilizations ...

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