civilization

Convery has nicely feathered hair and a character burdened by the plot’s corniest contrivances: a bully stubbornly pursuing him to the literal end of civilization, a lost pet dog that he’s determined to rescue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Smoke swallows civilization while sparks fall around the baroque column of the Fuente de los Luceros.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Each group branches off as they meet the sand with enough equipment to establish a civilization for one night.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Even the basics about the ancient civilization at Sanxingdui, located in the modern-day province of Sichuan in southwestern China, are fuzzy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The more I flipped on, the more I knew: Morgenstern wasn’t writing any children’s book; he was writing a kind of satiric history of his country and the decline of the monarchy in Western civilization.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

From this universal human experience, civilizations arise and cultures are born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

In ancient civilizations as in ours, it was status made manifest.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

In fact, he concluded, the two civilizations are “so radically different, they’re irreconcilable.”

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

For thousands of years, as civilizations waxed and waned, these three art forms—painting, sculpture, and architecture—embodied the ambitions, dreams, and values of their cultures.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell