The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

What sounds like a wild conspiracy theory could hold the key to finding alien life and help us measure our impact on our planet, they say. The new study hinges on a warming period 56 million years ago ...

Antiques have been discovered in Sikandar South, a small village in DI Khan, on Wednesday that date back to 2,600 BCE. The recent excavations provide details on the expansion of the Indus Valley ...

One of the greatest mysteries of India is how and why the flourishing Indus Valley Civilisation disappeared. Now, researchers ...

The 1969 groundbreaking Civilisation series took viewers on an extraordinary cultural tour through the centuries. Lisa Kerrigan examines its origins and later influence on television documentary.

Over the last 25 years, ‘Western civilisation’ has come to substitute for Australian civilisation, which had been rendered effete, multicultural, and hence unserviceable. (Clarence01 / Getty Images) ...

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON was almost right. The late American professor pricked a bubble of Western triumphalism with a gloomy prediction of strife in “The Clash of Civilisations?” in 1993. Where he erred was ...

In the graphic below, the University of Cambridge’s Luke Kemp compiled a list of civilisations to compare how long they lasted. One way to look at the rise and fall of past civilisations is to compare ...

PICTURE a peace-loving Atlantic island ruled by reason. Its 54 cities are governed by educated officials and an elected-for-life prince. Although war hasn’t been abolished, it is used only as a last ...

First broadcast in 1969 across 13 episodes, Civilisation took viewers on a tour through 13 countries and back through many centuries, all guided by Lord Kenneth Clark as he expounded, with ...