The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is regularly plagued by the fact that humanity has a very limited perspective on civilization and the nature of intelligence itself. When it comes ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where humanity has not only gained the ability to travel and to populate space but has progressed even further than that. Humanity can now control and navigate multiple universes.

New research explores how technological civilizations grow, collapse, and recover, and what this means for detecting ...

Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to ...

Between roughly 2000 and 1500 B.C., the Minoan civilization flourished on Crete and nearby islands, building palaces decorated with frescoes, engaging in athletic activities such as bull leaping, and ...

A country has borders. A civilization has wisdom. A country needs governance. A civilization sustains itself through culture, knowledge, and values that don’t depend on who is in power. A country can ...

There are few video game franchises as brave with each new entry as Sid Meier’s Civilization. You might not think it, but pause and give it some thought and you’ll realize that one of Civ’s closest ...