China’s rise gave us the opportunity to compare Western supranational cultural space to another such supranational cultural space — China. It was the rise of China that gave us this opportunity to ...

Ancient Egypt, China and Mesopotamia are all frequently cited as long-lasting civilizations, enduring for thousands of years. But which of these societies lasted the longest? It turns out, that's not ...

"The first requisite of civilization ... is that of justice," wrote Sigmund Freud in his 1930 book Civilization and Its Discontents. Ideally, this is true, but it often seems like some civilizations ...

7th century : Mecca -- 8th century : Damascus -- 9th century : Baghdad -- 10th century : Cordoba -- 11th century : Jerusalem -- 12th century : Cairo -- 13th century ...

An opinion piece published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, urgently calls for more research into the specific ...

Historian Thomas Cahill’s New York Times bestselling book “How the Irish Saved Civilization” revealed the key role the Irish have played in preserving the rich human history from fallen Rome. By ...