Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of strong monsoon rains was followed by a severe drought, which caused damage to ...

The collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization may have been linked to relatively modest dry spells, researchers now say. The ancient Mayan empire once stretched across an area about the size of Texas ...

Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from the ...

The nature of the societal collapse and your individual needs and priorities will vary of course, but here are 7 of the best ...

What would the collapse of civilization look like? We might immediately think of cutoff utilities, disruptions in the supply ...

WE are witnessing today a total collapse of the international legal order. Some may even call it a collapse of Western ...

The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...

IT is hard for America to get very worried about the collapse of civilization. Somehow, people have the feeling that on the morning after the collapse, Eddie Cantor would bring out a book called “Yoo ...

There is something fascinating about the end of the world. For centuries, artists have been looking to the idea of the apocalypse as a source of inspiration for tales about the collapse of ...