Think about it: one of the most sophisticated societies the Americas ever saw, with written language, complex mathematics, and towering pyramids, suddenly went quiet. Recent research studying Classic ...

If you want to understand what makes great civilizations possible, consider a walk on Monte Testaccio in central Rome. This 115-foot hill is actually an artificial mound, made up of fragments of ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...