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In Civilization, Damien Aubin turns his camera toward places designed on a scale that dwarfs the human body — vast industrial complexes, endless corridors, monumental grids of concrete and steel.

Empires do not fall when they are defeated from the outside, but when their systems grow so heavy that the society beneath them breaks-and begins to feed upon itself. The United States and NATO are ...

Does Harvard teach its undergraduates about “Western civilization”? As a history major there, I was recently surprised to learn—at least according to the conservative media ecosystem—that the answer ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

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 & ...

At its peak, the ancient Indus River Valley civilization featured gridded streets, multistory brick homes, flush toilets and bustling shops. Its people traded gold, precious stones and items such as ...