The desert doesn’t usually give things back easily. Wind scrapes away at the surface, heat bends the horizon, and whatever once stood there tends to stay buried for good. Yet in the dry hills of Peru, ...

New research paints a picture of a culture that struggled to navigate a significant increase in rainfall and slowly ...

The brightest stars are not only in the sky – they are in the people who strive to learn, create, and contribute Suhaib Bakshi Human civilisation did not appear suddenly. It developed gradually over ...

The 1969 groundbreaking Civilisation series took viewers on an extraordinary cultural tour through the centuries. Lisa Kerrigan examines its origins and later influence on television documentary.

Mesopotamia, the land between rivers, birthed the world's oldest civilization around 3500 BCE. The innovative Sumerians ...

Civilisations rise and fall and today I write about a serious threat facing western civilisation. Just a minute Willie, some of you may say, we thought you wrote a science column? True, but some ...

THE idea that we are living in a historic, even apocalyptic, age exerts a powerful pull on the human mind. Eschatology – the theology of end times – is a religious concept, but crops up in many other ...

First broadcast in 1969 across 13 episodes, Civilisation took viewers on a tour through 13 countries and back through many centuries, all guided by Lord Kenneth Clark as he expounded, with ...