civilization

An Austrian archduke’s visit to Sarajevo in 1914 triggered the war that nearly destroyed European civilization.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Five days after I received the message about Pete Heseth, I returned to civilization to find that very little had changed in my absence.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Second, it isn’t necessarily true that a well-intentioned AI whose evil twin is smart enough to bring down civilization is so smart that it’s bound to rake in big profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“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

He is a person living in a world where civilization has made an entry, and of course he has a standard of right and wrong.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Contemporary nations like Iran, Armenia, and Egypt can lay claim to being built on very old civilizations, but you could point out discontinuities and lapses in sovereignty in their histories that complicate the argument.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026

For more than a century, the National Museum has preserved a remarkable collection of clay tablets from some of the earliest civilizations in the Middle East.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson