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“It was the largest urban civilization of its day,” Mr. Kean writes, “with a million people living in 1,500 settlements spread over a region double the size of Montana.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

At Huxley-Parlour, SaraNoa Mark’s chunky cast-glass sculptures look like fragments of artifacts from an ancient alien civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

James and his combat dog Odin survive the crash, just barely, but they’re stranded deep in the wilderness, miles from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Could it have erupted during the time of the technological civilization?

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

We’re only down in the aqueduct for half an hour before we emerge and follow a foothill road far enough from civilization to be beyond most roadblocks.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The goal would be to make available, to students of all ages everywhere, a truly comprehensive record of documented human civilizations and ideas in all their variety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

For their argument, Schwitzgebel and Pober estimate that at least 1,000 behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial civilizations have existed somewhere in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Human civilizations across the ages have understood this to be an important lesson, which is how gold became the go-to cautionary symbol for greed, vanity, and the hollow existence to which they lead.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Unlike many other cultures, the Ionians were at the crossroads of civilizations, not at one of the centers.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan