Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

From climate change to geopolitics and artificial intelligence, there are many factors they must take into account while ...

of societies from the Akkadian empire of the 24 th century BC down to the modern age, of 336 years. It is very difficult to find an exact date for the “rise” of anything so complex as a ...

For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through history the biggest empires grew to cover millions of square miles.

For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through history the biggest empires grew to cover millions of square miles. But ...

Today, these lofty principles look quaint, if not outright irrelevant, as the world returns to what was presumed to be the natural law of statecraft since the dawn of history: The strong do as ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 ...

Trump’s ‘Canceled’ Empire Makes Comeback Rivaling Political Rise Trump Organization is on deal spree, especially in Middle East Income from golf and resort properties soared 60% since 2016 ...

one in the ancient Semitic language Akkadian, the other derived from the Indo-European Middle Low German—might comprise what the author of Babel: An Arcane History (published in 2022), calls a ...

To understand Trump’s recent rhetoric, I spoke with Daniel Immerwahr, a professor of history at Northwestern University, whose 2019 book, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United ...