The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of civilization and where farming first emerged. But little is known about how ...

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Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

The surprising discovery of a 2,800-year-old monumental structure in Tabasco, Mexico, is shaking our conceptions of Maya civilization and its emergence as a cultural force. Using a technology called ...

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

Choose a leader aligned with your victory goal to maximize strengths. Prioritize early exploration to set a foundation for future development. Strategically place settlements for growth and defensive ...

Civilization 7 has a chance to shake the series' foundations, and a proper, fully-fleshed out campaign mode could do just that. A great way to make sure that Civilization 7 will run smoothly is to ...

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has ...

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The primo 4X series has returned, as Civilization 7 starts becoming available for players who've pre-ordered particular editions. Arriving nine years after the last mainline entry, the latest ...

Early hands-on previews of Civilization VI came out Thursday, and those who had a chance to partake in the turn-based PC game found that it successfully built on the foundation of the past versions, ...