New research explores how technological civilizations grow, collapse, and recover, and what this means for detecting ...

The mysterious collapse of the Maya civilization may not have been driven solely by drought after all. New evidence from lake sediments in Guatemala reveals that one key city, Itzan, enjoyed a stable ...

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Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Easter Island is home to more than 1,000 massive stone statues—but the story behind them remains unclear. Built by a civilization that later collapsed, the Moai were transported across rugged terrain ...