The Indus Valley Civilisation flourished across what is now Pakistan and north-western India, becoming one of the world's ...

The conventional narrative places Mesopotamia at the beginning of civilisation, followed by Egypt, Greece and Rome. India ...

Maritime historian Nick Collins argues that the Indian subcontinent, not Mesopotamia, is the cradle of civilisation. Citing ...

Here, Adam recalls their conversation for BBC World Service programme CrowdScience: The Silurian hypothesis proposes that if ...

This historian said that once the Indus-Sarasvati cities were discovered they were found to be too sophisticated, too old and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week we polish up a tarnished idea and ask whether it's really as tarnished as all ...

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.

What is the Kardashev Scale? Elon Musk sees it as a vision for humanity's future, but scientists say the reality is more ...

When civilisational thinking ceases, a people lapse into this absence. More than a millennium of slavery, colonialism and neocolonial occupation has induced this deep forgetting. Entrapped by borrowed ...

We all know the Titanic and its tragic fate. But what do we really know about the people who were on board? What were their dreams and everyday lives like before that catastrophic night? Through ...