civilization

Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

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 Renaissance was the time when Western Europeans lost their awe of the Ancients and realized that they had as much to contribute to civilization and society as the Greeks and Romans had contributed.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

And indeed, the invention of writing was an early accomplishment of the “historic” civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson