An archaeologist shows a group of visitors around excavations at the heart of Benin City in Nigeria, in an area that was once part of the royal palace of the Benin Kingdom. When visitors arrive at ...

As the Western Empire buckled, Britain slipped from imperial control into self-rule, economic collapse, and relentless raids, until new peoples arrived and the old Roman cities emptied into legend.

Historical empires like Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union have experienced economic decline through seven identifiable stages, including military overextension and currency debasement.

Abstract: In recent years, significant progress has been made in extracting buildings from high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing images due to the rapid development of deep learning (DL).

Mr Crais makes an even bolder argument, and applies it more broadly. Over 700 gore-splattered pages, he contends that ...