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In the grand cities of ancient Rome, aqueducts delivered life-giving water to fountains, baths, and homes. The concrete Romans invented allowed them to build these vast networks. But those systems ...

The fall of the Roman Empire is often viewed as an inevitable event, but what if it wasn’t? In this video, we explore how a series of bad luck and unfortunate circumstances led to the collapse of the ...

Could climate change have caused the fall of Rome? This video examines how the Roman Empire thrived during the "Climate Optimum" of the 2nd century, only to face climate deterioration after 250 AD.

The 1990s bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill asserted that Irish monks, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, preserved essential religious and secular tracts from ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate, 400-year Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

A version of this essay first appeared in The Swell, Salon's culture newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, for more culture that's made to last. Two years ago, a viral trend tore ...

Archaeologists found evidence of a previously unknown Roman-era administrative center in present-day Switzerland. Experts believe this settlement was crucial for commerce and record-keeping—all part ...

Can everyone else not see what is wrong with this? What is it that we are throwing away? The years since World War II have been the most peaceful in human history. As Steven Pinker showed, we have ...

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