Historian Eric Cline illuminates the 400-year period following ancient collapse that shaped the modern world.

Historian Eric Cline argues the Bronze Age collapse wasn't the work of one invading force or one bad harvest, but something far harder to stop: An overly interdependent system that had no way to absorb multiple shocks at once.

No civilization, no matter how successful, can last forever. What does the non-detection of intelligent aliens mean for our own longevity?

In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.

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To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.