Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. After my grandmother died, we had ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

If you want to understand what makes great civilizations possible, consider a walk on Monte Testaccio in central Rome. This 115-foot hill is actually an artificial mound, made up of fragments of ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

After using lasers to map the Maya Lowlands, researchers have updated their estimates of the total Maya population during the Late Classic Period (A.D. 600 to 900). When you purchase through links on ...

New research is warning that the most likely outcome is that human civilization is poised for collapse. As The Guardian reports, a sweeping new historical survey that analyzes 5,000 years and the ...

Fans of complex strategy games, rejoice! Because this week Epic Games is offering a free PC game that’s truly worthwhile. Starting yesterday, you can get Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition ...

While Anime Champions Simulator offers in-game options that you can enable for Auto Attack and such things, the grinding part never becomes easier as you must manually take your Champions to enemies ...

Here I am again to argue that Civilization 7, as much as it may be too radical a departure from 4X game tradition, has the potential to be very, very good. Four months since Firaxis launched the ...