New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that ...

Squares are dead! Long live hexes! A storm was brewing at Firaxis, and it was undeniably hex-shaped. Since 1991, the series had used square grids, while more and more 4X and wargames gravitated ...

PBS and BBC have teamed on Civilizations, a global nine-part series that tells the story of art from the beginning of human history to the present day, for premiere this spring on PBS. The series was ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) have recently found remnants of a once-thriving and ...

THE present volume of Mr. Buckle’s history consists of a deductive application to the history of Spain and Scotland of certain leading propositions, which, in his previous volume, he claims to have ...

Civ 6 lets players live through history, but got Leonardo da Vinci wrong with a famous misattribution. The game's flight quote attributed to da Vinci paints a false picture of the legendary figure.

Strategy Total War: Shogun started out as 'a quick and cheerful B-grade RTS' to help Creative Assembly raise funds for its dream game—an RPG based on Monkey: Journey to the West City Builder Caribbean ...