What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the picture? Only in the past year, our civilization had to face several dreadful ...

“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Esben_H/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Fermi paradox asks: If there are other civilizations in the Universe besides ours, why ...

Researchers are still puzzling through what happened to the ancient Maya civilization, which mysteriously dwindled. New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump warns a "whole civilization" could die as his deadline for Iran to strike a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz ...

The following is an editorial by Armstrong Williams. Civilizations rarely collapse all at once. They erode slowly morally, spiritually, and culturally long before the final political or economic ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and whose name graces a unit ...

HISTORY.com may earn affiliate commissions for purchases made through links on this website. Lost cities and civilizations have long captured the imagination, inspiring both fiction and real-world ...

The Fermi paradox asks: If there are other civilizations in the Universe besides ours, why haven't we yet made contact? Researchers who study this paradox – also called the Great Silence – generally ...