Explore the lost civilizations of the Sahara, a once-green land of ancient rivers and forgotten kingdoms. Unearth stunning ...

From the pyramids of Giza to the temples of Angkor, ancient civilizations shaped the world we live in today through their ...

A bustling settlement in "Civilization 7," boasting the Coliseum, one of the game's many architectural Wonders. (Courtesy of Firaxis) Harriet Tubman plots my downfall. I’ve built Egypt from a single ...

In previous Civilization games, civs were always tied to a specific leader who was usually, but not always, a noteworthy head of state. Later iterations of the game offered multiple leaders for civs, ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

Annalee Newitz is the author of “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.” But the historical record shows that reports of the end times always turned out to be wrong. “Barbarians” didn’t ...

1. Our Oriental heritage, being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning to our own day, with an introduction on ...