It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The narrative of civilization’s rise and fall is often illustrated with grand achievements and epic downfalls, but one of the most understated ...

Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history ...