| 单词 | civilisation |
| 例句 | Indeed, all that happened as Roman power retreated from western and northern Europe was that its civilisation relocated to Constantinople, which continued to be a place of cultural magnificence for hundreds of years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The year 1450 is best remembered for one of the most important technological breakthroughs of human civilisation: Johannes Gutenberg’s development of a moveable-type printing press in the German town of Mainz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But of all the culturally sophisticated ancient civilisations that were playing and enjoying music in this period, there is one group that emerges head and shoulders above the rest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It is something to do with the younger generation contradicting the efforts of their elders, the perennial parent-child dynamic of human civilisation: ‘whatever they did, we will do the opposite.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z While at the heart of Beethoven’s symphony lies a vision of a better civilisation led by a benign deity, Berlioz, a life-long atheist, attempts to evoke the Apocalypse and Final Judgement in sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations became something of an ideal to which people might aspire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Their surviving amphitheatres, dotted around the eastern Mediterranean, are among the most vivid reminders to us of the artistic sophistication of their civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Although a creature of the wilds it had a leaning towards civilisation, and preened and smiled in a jam-jar in some cottage window without resentment, living quite a week if given water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One fragile musical thread did survive the collapse of Greco-Roman civilisation, given impetus by what seemed at first to be insignificant events in a troublesome frontier territory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Etchmiadzin Cathedral still stands today, an impressive rebuttal to the notion that the period following the fall of Rome meant the temporary end of civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We think of design as one of the planes on which civilisation charts its course, measuring ourselves by our technological achievements and our talent for pleasing forms. Welcome to Sarajevo's designs for survival 2011-03-02T14:40:00Z In this hefty history, Thomson travels from "Muybridge to Facebook", and hails the golden age of the movies as one of the great achievements of human civilisation. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z From this perspective, outlined by Miodownik, Roman civilisation appears to be the result not of advanced military expertise, but of an ability to manufacture and mould superior materials, in this case high-quality steel. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-06-17T08:01:04Z Spengler, author of The Decline of the West pops up repeatedly only to be exposed as a fatalist who confuses his own hang-ups about women with a wider crisis in European civilisation. 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies – review 2013-07-19T09:00:01Z This is actually the plot of a piece of fanfic from the 1950s, in which sci-fi fans survive Armageddon and rebuild civilisation in their own image. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z A producer of educational television and, subsequently, a writer about ancient civilisations, he used his vast store of knowledge to explain by metaphor, analogy and models. Paul Kriwaczek obituary 2011-03-17T19:00:53Z His depictions of the brutal life of the Pacific are forthright and disillusioned, especially when the representatives of higher civilisation show up. Carsten Jensen's top 10 seafaring tales 2010-04-14T11:04:00Z This fascinating exhibition at the British Museum traces the history of our relationship with horses, from the earliest Middle Eastern civilisations to today. An equestrian expert on The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot 2012-06-03T18:30:01Z “Every great civilisation was built off the back of a disposable work force,” says Jared Leto’s replicant-manufacturing CEO. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Of all the terrible things done throughout history in the name of civilisation, the Congo Free State ranks with the worst. Lumumba fights its corner as a corrective to imperialism 2012-06-14T13:25:47Z In the latter film, all memories of Close Encounters are effaced as we watch Martians murder hordes of people, see cities destroyed, civilisation erased. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Gauguin thought that great art needed barbarous people," he says, "that too much civilisation was the end of great art … Black art was discovered after Gauguin and because of him. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z I’m lost somewhere in Patagonia, away from civilisation, stuffing my face with meat and without access to internet. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z These things are not luxuries but the very definition of a civilisation that is worth each of us being part of. Noises off: Arts Council funding ? bloggers bite back 2011-03-31T12:06:06Z There’s just so much of it: a relatively small amount of civilisation, but a huge quantity of wilderness. Experience: writing help in the sand saved my life 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In the mid-18th-century, "it is to Scotland that we look," said Voltaire, "for all our ideas of civilisation." Scots: an auld dug with plenty of bite 2010-06-04T21:00:00Z Fifty years ago an art historian said anyone would be forgiven for thinking that Caravaggio's contribution to civilisation lay somewhere between Aristotle and Lenin; now we could throw in Nietzsche and the Marquis de Sade. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Mass television is arguably the biggest change to have happened to our civilisation. From the archive, 31 August 1976: Who loves you Doctor? 2010-08-31T09:01:00Z Babar is a young orphaned elephant who flees the jungle for human civilisation. Babar the Elephant heads to the big screen 2010-08-04T12:53:00Z The Renaissance began as a movement by Italian intellectuals to rediscover the true meaning and value of ancient Greek and Roman civilisation. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z It hinted at the wisdom both of old civilisations and of France, the national embodiment of universal truth born of historical trauma. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Nothing amuses the humans and computer Minds who run the Culture more than messing around with less evolved, more barbaric civilisations. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z "The working title was 'the decline of western civilisation'." Barbican bowled over by artist's game installation 2011-02-09T15:43:19Z But nowadays the truly farouche is but a curl of wood smoke in a hacked about forest clearing: soon it will be dispersed forever by the gritty wind of civilisation. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z History and civilisation are an authoritative record the mind has left, is leaving, and will leave, and objectivity deserving the name would take this record as a starting point. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Nor did he want to blow up western civilisation with a stick of conceptual dynamite. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z "Meeting that need was a key driver of social, economic and political change within the ancient world, one that played a fundamental role in both the rise and then fall of ancient civilisations." Beyond the Blue Horizon by Brian Fagan; Thirst by Steven Mithen – review 2012-09-29T23:05:06Z I just find it hard to accept feminism has gone too far, that a bit of underarm hair signals the end of western civilisation. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z Any children with a thirst for knowledge of this great and glorious civilisation don't need to dream of a trip to Pompeii. You don't have to go to the British Museum – Rome leads to all roads 2013-04-12T21:00:04Z Distilled in lushly hued images of tropical paradise, his vision of Tahiti as an antidote to rotten "civilisation" is positioned as an artfully contrived come-on. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z For them it was "the essence of civilisation – of benefit to humanity, according to Plato". 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z The notion of milk's potency as a precursor or catalyst of civilisation has often proved controversial. Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z It seemed utterly alien and the "canals" visible on its surface from Earth were held to be the work of some grand civilisation. Curiosity rover: why does sci-fi always look more marvellous than reality? 2012-08-08T15:05:34Z In the new book, the Gzilt civilisation is preparing to Sublime. The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks - review 2012-10-10T07:00:02Z Human industrial civilisation is altering the entire planet. World domination 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z How did this obscure village on the fringes of civilisation grow over a few centuries to dominate the known world? What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The English critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers once suggested western musical structures mirrored that civilisation's impulse to appropriate and conquer, while southern Africa's represented harmony with its surroundings. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z Verdi, who failed to travel to Cairo to attend the premiere, described ancient Egypt as possessing "a grandeur and a civilisation I could never bring myself to admire". David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z Halfway through the book, the goatherd stumbles across the ruins of a defunct civilisation, thereby reaching the novel's climax, after which each story is resolved one by one. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Time has passed, and we have stepped over the ruins of our own societies, and our own civilisations, and we come now to the fruition of those things about which the human race has dreamed. Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z Spring comes to English provinces that have basked in the glow of Roman civilisation for 300 years. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z When Archos, a supremely intelligent AI, achieves self-awareness, he sets about destroying human civilisation in order to preserve Earth's biodiversity. Anne Hathaway takes on Robopocalypse 2012-11-13T11:29:30Z They represent the core of Greek civilisation, and they are the beating heart of modern Greek identity. The Parthenon marbles are not ours. They belong in Athens 2012-05-19T23:06:36Z Set in a time of enchanted forests, developing human civilisation goes to war with gods who walk the earth. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In the most disturbing Herzog films, human life is a beleaguered property, a flicker of consciousness sustained within an equally flimsy civilisation. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z The relentless pressing of the button down the hatch - is that what the writers think of civilisation? The last Lost 2010-05-24T08:51:00Z We got to where we are now through a number of civilisation- and society-shaping "events", most notably the agricultural revolution, the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution and – in the West – the public-health revolution. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z This ancient pilgrimage site predates Machu Picchu by some 2,000 years and is often hailed as the “origin civilisation” for the Peruvian Andes. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z The result wreaked destruction throughout history, leading to the loss of the Mayan, Easter Island and other civilisations. What Has Nature Ever Done for Us? by Tony Juniper – review 2013-01-20T10:00:01Z After a second night, return reluctantly to civilisation. Scotland’s best Highland bothy weekend adventures 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z "Everything, from planets to stars, is a relic of previous races and civilisations." Obituary: Sir Terry Pratchett 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z If, in the very process by which we invite people to share in our ancient liberties, we've lost that understanding, then we've truly diminished as a civilisation. My new British citizenship test: who is Cheggers, and why is he so funny? 2012-07-14T23:06:14Z If the emergence of advanced civilisations is common, then the obvious explanation is that a typical extraterrestrial empire doesn't last long. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z While accepting Eliot's main contention that a classic is the mature cultural product of a mature civilisation, Kermode adds a typically complicating spin. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z In 1997 he produced A Song of Stone, a bleak political fable set in some unnamed land where civilisation has collapsed. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z But he understands it too in relation to the enlightenment in Europe and north America, and the model it created of civilisation based on the principles of "privacy, equality, and freedom". The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala - review 2012-02-10T22:55:05Z Art for Morris was the test of a true civilisation. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Torchwood shows how fragile the bonds we pass off as civilisation really are. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode six 2011-08-13T05:00:00Z DS If the term pre-history makes it sound like nothing much happened to humanity before something called civilisation broke out, Neil Oliver would beg to differ. Tonight's TV highlights: Madagascar 2011-02-09T00:05:01Z Culture is not something apart but breathed into all of civilisation. We know spending on the arts makes big money for Britain. So why cut it? 2013-05-02T19:30:01Z But this is Copenhagen, not Canberra: no one shrieks hysterically about chaos and the looming end of civilisation even though deals are brokered in corridors and big reforms teeter always on the brink. What Borgen's prime minister tells us about Julia Gillard 2013-06-13T01:16:44Z Many of the specific societal pressures that induce trust are as old as civilisation. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z When people aren't getting to know the world through literature but through the news, they become more superficial, and contemporary society becomes an "uncivilised civilisation". Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z Vast in particular sounds like the personification of a city and a civilisation at the end of its tether. My favourite album: Cannibal Ox ? The Cold Vein 2011-08-09T16:22:36Z Advanced civilisations arose where the environment allowed for plant domestication, leading to the generation of surplus and population growth, which in turn led to political centralisation and social stratification. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Mercator's projection, for instance, far from serving as a monument to the glories of European civilisation, was in fact an expression of the very opposite: a deep despair at the savagery of its hatreds. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z But when civilisation breaks down, we resort to a cunning DIY culture with the resultant Mad Max mechanics and none of the Hollywood styling. Welcome to Sarajevo's designs for survival 2011-03-02T14:40:00Z The key point is that the ability to store and deliver water has been the cornerstone of civilisation. Beyond the Blue Horizon by Brian Fagan; Thirst by Steven Mithen – review 2012-09-29T23:05:06Z Maybe he actually is the centre: the last action hero, rock-solid nucleus of popular culture, whose flexing biceps are all that’s holding civilisation – or at least Hollywood – together. Let’s rock! Why Dwayne Johnson is the new Schwarzenegger 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Only in 2002 did they recognise the memory of the Oceanic civilisation. Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors ? review 2010-12-28T14:00:00Z The bricks might be people, homes, or civilisations, falling and springing back to life as the films begin again and again. Artist of the week 204: Damián Ortega 2012-08-23T11:07:07Z Since I saw X-Men, I have seen Captain America, a film about a mad Nazi scientist hellbent on the destruction of civilisation, and Cowboys & Aliens, a horse opera smorgasbord about a 19th-century extraterrestrial invasion. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z That song is imagining what these extremists, this fringe of so-called Islam, were saying of western civilisation and it's me thinking, 'Well, I like western civilisation. Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z Wild constitutes a modern, even feminist, reimagining of the American frontier narrative — a lone journey into the "wild west," stripped of the markers of civilisation to truly find a self-made paradise. Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z The dystopian Mad Max universe, with its visions of a junkyard future comprised of the flotsam and jetsam of human civilisation, is full of recycled commodities: what the director calls “found objects repurposed”. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Their album's title, Tomorrow's Harvest, echoes that of a US "family preparedness" website selling dried food and survivalist supplies in the event of the breakdown of civilisation. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-08T23:05:05Z Voznesensky's poetic themes are varied: war, revolution, the natural environment, death, love and a civilisation organised around motor transport. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z He thought that advanced civilisations existed in other parts of the galaxy, and most likely they had achieved socialism long ago. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z If that happens, we may avoid the "clash", but it may come at the cost of an arrangement neither community should be eager to call "civilisation". On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review 2013-05-10T11:00:03Z Look at The Social Network again after seeing True Grit, and you'll see two different civilisations, as far removed from each other in ethos as Silicon Valley and Monument Valley. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z It becomes an allegory of heaven or hell, a vision of the apocalypse, the spectre of civilisations past. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Created in collaboration with the British Museum, each part will explore one great civilisation. The Ancient World 2010-10-26T13:00:00Z A science-fiction programme hinging on how fragile the bonds we pass off as civilisation really are. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode six 2011-08-13T05:00:00Z The Culture is a galaxy-spanning civilisation that lives in perfect utopia. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z Three "cradles" of our many regional civilisations – , Syria and Egypt – are riven by conflict, the former two torn apart by civil war. Shubbak festival: a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time 2013-06-19T11:08:23Z Little by little, his awareness of the structure of those stories becomes the skill by which he'll solve an enigma and give a new beginning to civilisation. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z His mission is to find all 99 gem-wielders and unite them to change the course of human civilisation. Meet the Islamic superheroes 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z "It is no accident that the pyramids, the greatest physical symbols of ancient civilisation, belong to the age of the discovery of mathematics and writing." Sue Arnold on science audiobooks 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z He quoted Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt as saying that every two days now the human race creates as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation until 2003. Gaiman: No bad books for children 2013-10-14T20:57:24Z However, he's effectively walked us through the idea that the Dark Ages were illuminated by some key developments in world civilisation. TV highlights 18/12/2012 2012-12-17T19:59:01Z For Hall, that means exposing his many blindspots: the way he excluded people from the imagined British community on the basis of gender, class and ethnicity; and entrenched hierarchical ideas of civilisation. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z "The arts are an absolutely vital part of the nation and a vital part of the lifeblood of our civilisation," he says with a fervour of which Shakespeare and Olivier would be proud. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z With only pre-industrial technology available, the people of Inland live by scavenging, digging out the detritus of civilisation to use again, and their belief system is likewise a scavenger theology, combining whatever elements are available. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z The Canadian author tells the BBC why she thinks art will have such a crucial role after the collapse of civilisation. Will Shakespeare survive the apocalypse? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z When the underwater volcano Thera erupted, its tsunami flooded much of Crete, wiping out the Minoan civilisation, and providing Plato with the material for his account of Atlantis. Atlantis: The Evidence 2010-06-02T07:00:00Z Miles is stating that the roots of jazz, of blues, of rock and of civilisation began in Africa. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z This is a concept that could carry on ad infinitum with various combinations and a celebrity spin-off, creating a civilisation of Channel 4-engineered couples. TV highlights 20/06/2013 2013-06-20T06:00:06Z So, I ended up creating Koturia, a world that models its civilisation on our modern Las Vegas. Richelle Mead: The Doctor can go pretty much anywhere you can imagine, no matter how crazy it might seem 2013-07-01T12:25:24Z Like many Persianists, he frets that if the Iranians are granted freedom to choose they will choose America and a great civilisation will be destroyed. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z "Probing questions concerning our outlook on the world and the state of our civilisation must impact the work of the new programme of doctoral studies in Sarajevo," quipped Tarr. Death by degrees? Bela Tarr to open film academy 2012-09-28T12:34:33Z For thousands of years the great civilisations / considered manual and mundane labour / a punishment. / Bevel by William Letford – review 2012-08-28T11:30:01Z The men who enlisted may have thought they were fighting for civilisation, a better world, a war to end all wars, a war to defend freedom: they were wrong. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z Photograph: Channel 5 It is the presumed dream of every working stiff: quit your dead-end job, turn your back on civilisation and disappear into the wilderness. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild – TV review 2013-04-23T06:00:08Z Before he leaves for the vet, I ask if he’s feeling hopeful for civilisation. Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Even to mention the 1930s is to evoke the period when human civilisation entered its darkest, bloodiest chapter. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Rousseau's thesis was that children were essentially good, but became corrupted by society and the influence of civilisation. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z All these people, apparently so replete with culture and civilisation, are utterly, frozenly empty, and the truth seems to vanish in a glittering world of misleading surfaces and perspectives. Last Year in Marienbad ? review 2011-07-07T22:14:01Z In a marvellous piece of irony, Sharpe dedicated the book to "the South African police force whose lives are dedicated to the preservation of western civilisation in southern Africa". Tom Sharpe, Wilt novelist, dies aged 85 2013-06-06T09:45:25Z Izzard, a Labour supporter, said the Yes to AV campaign is "pushing for civilisation". Alternative vote system would see MPs denied 'jobs for life', says Dyke 2011-04-02T12:52:21Z Rohanda is the proudest achievement of the Canopean empire, a paradise world where humankind's early ancestors have been nurtured into a utopian civilisation, with some gentle interference from the massively more advanced Canopeans. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Yet all three of them, in turn, were disappointed by "western civilisation" and turned back to native resources. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z Now she sees that skein of civilisation as thin, one torn apart by the inexplicable disappearance of her son and her fellow humans' toxic reaction to it. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z Civilization is a game that – true to its name – enables you to build your own civilisation. From Civilization to Big Brother: how a game recreated Orwell's 1984 2012-06-13T11:55:34Z Their art is so superb in quality that it proves the existence of a higher mind, the capacity to create civilisation. The origin of artists: why humans should take credit for inventing art 2012-06-25T12:28:50Z "It's been called everything from a pop culture phenomenon to an indication of the decay of western civilisation," is how the crowing TLC channel has introduced the show over here. Is this parade of 'genius children' a really stupid idea? 2013-06-15T19:00:03Z But to experience ancient Peru at its wildest, this trek from Chavín, the original centre of Andean civilisation, to one of the great Inca sites at Huánuco Pampa, is hard to beat. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Ancient Greece 480BC, when they were laying the foundations for western civilisation. Archie Panjabi: ‘An agent told me an Indian woman could never have a Hollywood career' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z It's a smartly stupid, sketch-formatted, song-studded romp through history, from ancient civilisations to world wars, with the emphasis firmly on the gory and gruesome. Take five: box sets for primary school-age kids 2012-08-28T11:00:22Z Holland said he tried "to examine, within a historical framework, the rise of a new civilisation and empire" in the Arab empire from the 7th Century. Channel 4's Islam film sparks row 2012-09-03T11:59:06Z His fiction contains a longing for and a deep understanding of unfamiliar and lost cultures and civilisations, in all their magnificence, brutality, culture and delusions. Amin Maalouf: profile 2011-03-30T11:50:59Z Its invisibility was not the result of the collapse of the civilisation that produced it, but rather its rejection by American publishers. Lost literature: the unknown unknowns 2010-04-07T12:46:00Z He is an outsider to civilisation that incarnates its best aspirations. Tarzan at 100: lord of the superheroes 2012-06-08T13:13:36Z The internet is just another part of man-made reality, not some separate utopian civilisation where humanity has the chance to start again. Why such outrage over porn filters? The idea seems perfectly reasonable to me 2013-07-26T14:15:00Z Zach'ry's people view Somni as a god, and recordings of her story form one of the few preserved artefacts from the lost civilisation. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Was western civilisation built on milk? Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z ONE of the grandest concepts in science fiction is the idea of terraforming, in which advanced civilisations reshape entire planets to suit their needs. World domination 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z For many of them the fact that they can see these great collections for nothing is a surprise, and seen as a mark of British civilisation. Museums should appeal to the heart 2010-06-28T09:59:00Z An eight-part series for BBC1 being made in partnership with the Discovery Channel in the US, the BBC today promised the "greatest story ever told" and the "definitive account of human civilisation". Andrew Marr to take on History of the World for BBC 2010-11-22T15:04:00Z Is he or she the sort of person who complains about the word "gifting", taking it as yet another signal that civilisation is crumbling around our ears? Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z Giants devoured the bodies of dead men and the abolition of that practice represents the advent of the Olympians and civilisation. How to Read a Graveyard by Peter Stanford – review 2013-05-03T18:00:03Z Feminism, multi-culturalism and anti-colonialism not only sought to correct injustices, but uncovered oppressive structures buried deep within the foundations of Western civilisation. Extract: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 2010-04-16T09:19:00Z The entire point of my article, however, was that parents should try to share the wonders and treasures of high art and civilisation with their children by visiting museums. Swallow your sneering, ArtWatch 2010-06-17T14:36:00Z It is clear that many white protagonists of the original wild west epic are in some sense misfits in, or refugees from, "civilisation", but that is not, I think, the main essence of their situation. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z It joins a small but growing genre of obsidian-black, quasi-apocalyptic comedies each diagnosing demented fantasy and suicidal self-deception as characteristic symptoms of the feverish last days of American civilisation. God Bless America is a B-movie that hits the spot 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z Our cultural take on success and heroism – the ideals of any civilisation – reflect a prejudice that is staggering. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z For many Ukrainians today Galicia is a beacon of Western civilisation. A successful Austrian invention 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z More than any other reality series – more than Jersey Shore or anything starring the Kardashians – the show has come to signal the genuine collapse of civilisation for some reviewers. Does Here Comes Honey Boo Boo deserve its 'controversial' tag? 2013-05-10T13:00:00Z Hell Ship is a freewheeling extravaganza replete with a hundred varieties of alien, vast spacecraft, exotic worlds, weapons of mass destruction and battles that destroy a million civilisations and annihilate countless universes. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z In Collapse, Diamond returned to the theme of environmental determinism as he pondered why and how great civilisations come to an end. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z The perils of Venice are real; this treasury of civilisation does need protecting. Venice has the battle against extreme weather down to a fine art 2012-11-12T15:37:27Z It's a breathtaking claim to make for her own significance, and one longs to reassure her that half the nation isn't kept awake nights plotting the downfall of civilisation. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z This, implicitly, is seen as the triumph of ephemera, and the end of civilisation as we know it. Don't write off literary letters 2010-10-11T11:38:00Z The exhibition contains a monumental, hand-printed edition of the Volsung saga, which Morris believed to be as central to northern civilisation as the fall of Troy to ancient Greece. William Morris 2010-09-07T22:29:00Z A staunch proponent of Negritude, or Blackness, Bebey wrote poetry, novels and journalism, all of which aimed to promote the common values of Black civilisation; this remarkable record forms part of that aim. The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Francis Bebey – African Electronic Music 1975-1982 2013-01-30T11:18:55Z The trail is steeped in history, traversing some of the oldest continually used paths in the world; this is, after all, part of the fertile crescent where civilisation first developed. Jogging in Jordan: the 650km trail that's a journey through time 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The value of libraries to people is greater than just access to books – it is one of the benchmarks of civilisation. Julia Donaldson defends libraries from Terry Deary's attack 2013-02-15T16:13:12Z Acknowledging Horace, in a religious turn of phrase, as his "secret saviour", Eyres wonders if those ancient poems might "save others, even an entire civilisation?" Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z What better way to plug into Inca civilisation than to follow their footsteps along their Royal Road, testimony to their facility for building at heights other civilisations would never dream of reaching. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Call this politeness, call it civilisation, call it a necessary veneer of hypocrisy – we need it and when it breaks down, things get ugly. NYPD attempts to censor anticipated Park Avenue art project 2013-07-29T16:39:12Z The scheme will focus largely on Moorish civilisation, disregarding black Mauritanian culture represented by the Pular, Wolof and Soninke ethnic groups. Mauritania's hidden manuscripts 2010-07-27T13:00:00Z Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours. Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre – review 2013-02-14T09:01:01Z Schultz and Django first meet outside civilisation when the bounty hunter meets the slave chained to four others being led to market by brutal traders out west. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z That famously bore fruit in his An Inspector Calls, at the National in 1992: the production that showed the Birling family household, and by implication the whole pre-1914 civilisation, collapsing before our eyes. Hurrah for Daldry and Boyle 2010-06-17T10:54:00Z So, in his art, is he trying to point out that beneath the veneer of civilisation we're all seething ids and repressed psychotics? How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Yet now and again civilisations broke this mould and developed economic features that were recognisably capitalist. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z An entire generation of travellers may never experience Yemen, missing out on a unique civilisation. Can Middle East tourism ever recover? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Jewish artists, he concluded, contributed towards "our modern self-deception", and "Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilisation". A to Z of Wagner: J is for Jews 2013-06-13T15:31:05Z "Now it is very remarkable, that among people in a very low stage of civilisation, we find some approach to such a perfect state," he observes. The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace – review 2013-01-11T07:00:21Z Or do they actually believe that Russia exemplifies a new civilisation—free of the decadence and weakness of the West? The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The new film will see Caesar begin to assemble the building blocks of ape civilisation after the climactic events of the first film. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes director will be Matt Reeves 2012-10-02T10:32:20Z “I really have the feeling that a self-assured civilisation such as ours is preparing our own destruction,” he says. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Gauguin was the first who had the idea to go to the primitive cultures because the power of creativity is there, rational civilisation has completely castrated the creative spirit. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z Miyazaki's movies are exciting and fantastical, often involving flying machines, ecological disasters, clashing civilisations and precarious spiritual values – all rendered in clean, colourful, hand-drawn animation. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z This was a mere four or five millennia ago, the so-called dawn of civilisation. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z Perhaps it is testament to Canada's relative naivety and civilisation. Lucy Mangan on Re-Vamped 2011-01-25T08:00:06Z Given slavery was the norm in all human civilisation until the 19th century, why do you think the US in particular struggles to deal with the consequences? Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It all began just at the end of the First World War, which was a watershed for industrialisation and the coming era of technology in civilisation. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z This year's event, the 64th annual festival, will combine shows that boast exuberant dance alongside dark and troubling works exploring Europe's destruction of the Aztec civilisation. Edinburgh festival will reflect clash of cultures 2010-03-17T19:47:00Z Yet belief in Ukraine’s history of tolerance and legality, rooted in European Christian civilisation, keeps hope alive. Keeping hope alive 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z One British minister described child migration as necessary because "the British empire is the only hope for the preservation of world civilisation". Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z But of course technically with what we're doing with the 360 degree camera, there is no end or start of civilisation. Burning grand pianos on the Scottish border 2012-05-22T13:39:00Z M, who dines solo at Rules, is a cousin to Gustave and even to Harry: British chins kept up even as civilisation crumbles around them. Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Her visual style brings to mind the lengthy contemplative shots in Tarkovsky's Stalker, Nostalgia and The Sacrifice, and we think of blitzed cities, battlefields, the death camps, the post-industrial world and the impermanence of civilisation. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z Two weeks ago the director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota, claimed that arts cuts would "threaten the whole ecosystem of civilisation". As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z Peaks and troughs; disinterest and prejudice; pin-point accuracy and whole realms of experience imagined as the haunt of fearsome monsters: civilisation bears witness to them all. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z One is a descent into the nightmare of the unconscious; the hidden lusts, and brutality lying under the veneer of civilisation. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z Here you can forget the clutter of civilisation. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z In spite of all the obstacles, however, Miles paints a full and convincing picture of this lost civilisation and its players. A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010-07-06T13:13:00Z We may like to think of ourselves as civilised but that civilisation is in large part bestowed by material wealth. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-06-17T08:01:04Z I looked east, down into the arid Owens valley, where there were towns and roads, signs of the civilisation we had seen and heard nothing of for almost a week. Sky-high trekking: taking on California’s High Sierra Trail 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z But it would be a step back for civilisation if it came to replace them. Of course Rupert Murdoch's evil, but that doesn't mean he's wrong 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z It is a beautiful but poignant novel about the changes brought by modern technology and civilisation, and of a girl stuck between two cultures. Emma Barnes's top 10 books with wolves 2012-08-09T13:42:22Z Where civilisation first set up its stall in the near east, there are accounts of dairying. Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z Diamond's next outing, Collapse, was a series of case histories of failed civilisations – Easter Island and Norse Greenland among them – together with studies of contemporary ones on the brink of ecological collapse. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z Terrestrial civilisation is difficult to preserve in an organised way – one reason why women, who rarely went to sea in numbers, are still so often hidden from history. In praise of … the Mary Rose 2013-05-30T23:01:03Z In July I found myself in the Alaskan wilderness, nervously waiting for a seaplane to take me back to civilisation. Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z The latter doubles up as a canvas of the Roman Campagna and the former as a perspective recession of Roman civilisation's most famous token. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z I think there are inspiring answers in past civilisations and the lives of past individuals, and that is my influence in writing my new book The Wonderbox. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z Thoreau was always sceptical of what people called “civilisation” – accumulating material goods, moving into a bigger house. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z Do I ask myself," he replies, "do I think our civilisation is superior to theirs? The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z What does civilisation, as embodied by Provence, consist of? Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Language is the first sign we have arrived in a foreign land, and swearing is a way of discovering new civilisations and what they find offensive. Bleep me up Scotty: why is sci-fi suddenly so sweary? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The protagonists were patrician stalwarts of the British aristocracy who, moved by a sense of duty to empire and the old order, were intent on delivering civilisation from the Devil's icy fingers. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Golf really represents the decline of civilisation at some level doesn't it? A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z Brotton's idea of tracing within maps the patterns of human thought and civilisation is a wonderful one. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z As their civilisation begins to dismantle, they resort to violence, savagery and murder, turning the book into a blistering, dystopic satire on the follies of mankind, the innate savagery of masculine culture, and government itself. 'Someone missed the point': Lord of the Flies 'all girls' remake spawns social media backlash 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It's not just about animals: there are also Bedouins, riding their camels past the ruins of ancient civilisations, across the "mighty sea of sand". Last night's TV: Wild Arabia – review 2013-02-22T22:59:01Z The idea of an “Oriental despotism” based on a “hydraulic civilisation” was advanced in the 1950s by Karl Wittfogel, a Marxist historian. Water, water, everywhere 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z What this suggests is that "Judeo-Christian civilisation" is a relatively new and an essentially ideological construct. The Arabs and the Holocaust by Gilbert Achcar 2010-06-25T23:09:00Z The fundamental importance of materials is apparent from the names we have used for stages of civilisation – the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z There were those in Cambridge who thought he was planning to do the same to western civilisation. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z Such oppositional historiography – the idea of a head-on clash of civilisations, with a clear winner and loser – seems to hold a perennial appeal in terms of both its simplicity and its drama of antagonism. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z "I really wish I could be around for the rest of this century, to see what Hollywood does with the rest of the century. Maybe, just maybe, it could be civilisation's game changer." Belafonte handed honorary Oscar 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z If the trappings of civilisation leave us so dissatisfied, then maybe their absence is preferable and we should abandon them in order to seek some deeper truth. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z As one of few sitting for the second-encore ovation, I felt as if caught up in a crowd looting Greggs sandwich shop – thinking that we, as a civilisation,need to up our game. Prom 40: BBC Concert Orchestra/Minchin/The Boy with Tape on His Face etc ? review 2011-08-14T12:27:59Z It's showing how civilisations developed independently and influenced each other. 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z This latter-day Ezekiel, then, ruled a kingdom that is an oasis of seeming civilisation walled against the surrounding barbarism. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Cinema matters, he said, because empathy is “the purpose of civilisation and growth”. 'Tough but profoundly cathartic': can Disclosure change trans representation on screen? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z It speaks well of contemporary civilisation that it allows Ms Salcedo to memorialise its dead. Die and do 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In France, culture and civilisation is state policy. France and the arts: a new revolution 2011-03-24T08:00:02Z For this reason, the proper home for it is indeed in an academic institution, which can shelter it as a strand of civilisation, an intellectual precept. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z He once wrote: "It is only through science and art that civilisation is of value." Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z That’s intercut with interviews with scientists talking about how you can leave a signal for future civilisations not to go into this burial chamber. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z It is the tyrant to be vanquished by civilisation: "We are not born free." Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z It took our species from the birth of prehistory to the dawn of Babylonian civilisation to learn mathematics. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Historian Ronald Wright asserts that civilisations jeopardise themselves when inequality runs rampant and the peasants are not given their share of the land. It's a good week in television for republicanism 2012-06-01T23:05:37Z Putting aside his unshakable position in the global roll-call of civilisation's great and good, why should we care about this curious, clever, condemned Greek? Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z Objectivity is the goal of civilisation, an aspiration rooted in the struggle to be objective about oneself. Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review 2012-08-24T21:45:04Z After his death, Socrates's ideas had a prodigious impact on both western and eastern civilisation. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z "The savages naturally compared everything with their own home, but seldom found the comparison favourable to civilisation." From the archive, 25 June 1889: Berlin leaves African visitors cold 2012-06-25T06:30:00Z The theme for these two collections of essays might be considered to be the search for knowledge about subjects, such as ancient civilisations, about which we can never be totally sure. Evan S Connell obituary 2013-01-14T17:21:15Z Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation, which opens in April, is the first in the UK devoted to the history and culture of both Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders that extends back 60,000 years. Passport art to go on show 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Filming of the fifth Terminator movie is taking place, appropriately enough, in the ruins of our recently collapsed civilisation. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator Genisys: ‘I’ll be taking a beating or two’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Bakhtin, a Marxist critic, had deep feelings for capitalist civilisation; similarly, Benjamin, another so-called Marxist critic, actually cherished the classical period. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z When the view from your hotel rooftop is of the cradle of western civilisation, that's quite an impressive achievement. Summer readings: One Day by David Nicholls 2011-08-08T08:42:14Z They were appreciated by ancient civilisations in Egypt, Greece and Rome. Eels have fascinated us for ages. Here's why we need to stop eating them 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Being able to converse with meaning about beauty is the essence of civilisation, separating leaders from bean-counters. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z Its permanent collection spans prehistoric civilisation to the modern day, presenting artefacts that tell the story of the land and its people. Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San Sebastián 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z It is such a flame-seared image, we might be seeing the end of civilisation – and a family tough enough to outlive it. Wildfires: an astonishing photograph of survivors in an age of catastrophe 2013-01-09T21:00:03Z The world and time is set to end in three weeks and one family gathers to witness the end of civilisation. Theatre picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z Missoula is an oasis of civilisation deep in the Rockies, surrounded by Native American reservations, national forests and five different mountain ranges. The best towns and small cities in the US: Missoula, Montana 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z We feel humbled and exhausted and a long way from civilisation. Different strokes: wild swimming in Spain 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Wingrove has rewritten the series to comprise 20 volumes, with two original opening books that chart the fall of western civilisation before the Chinese takeover. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-05T00:07:12Z Its star – a portly ethnographer-cum-archaeologist who solves crimes and explains civilisations – is already well known to millions of Japanese readers, who follow his exploits in a series of Hoshino Yukinobu-penned comics. The British Museum: marbles, murals... and manga! 2011-08-14T18:59:00Z In The Piano, the beach represents the borderline between civilisation and wilderness, he says, an opposition dramatised by the famous image of the piano stranded on the sand. Is New Zealand's greatest actor New Zealand itself? 2013-08-16T23:01:49Z Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation is at the British Museum 23 April - 2 August. Passport art to go on show 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z He painted a picture of a man always on the run for fear of looking back – who had purged two mighty civilisations and was paying for it every day with his conscience. Doctor Who: why did Christopher Eccleston leave show after one series? 2011-07-21T14:27:23Z The veneer of civilisation falls away very fast. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z Mr Burns, just opened at London's Almeida Theatre, is set in an America without electricity after the collapse of civilisation. Will The Simpsons survive the apocalypse? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z There are these great moments of civilisation, of science, but they try to be bigger and better than they are, and when they fall, they resort to grotesque public execution. Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Nonetheless, Syria’s tourism ministry rebranded the country the “cradle of civilisation” and looked to Palmyra and other archaeological sites as a source of money. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Byron was a brave traveller, an art historian of erudition, and a connoisseur of civilisations. William Dalrymple's top 10 books on Afghanistan 2013-03-27T11:27:32Z The adult insistence that children are innocents corrupted by civilisation is a presumption the brothers want to subvert. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z His world view was demarcated between enlightened nations and barbarians – a veritable clash of civilisations. Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z Although I suspect when that happens we will know that civilisation has completely crumbled and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are sipping egg nog in the Green Room. Alan Carr's Chatty Man is the right talkshow for now 2010-12-13T14:47:00Z But he knew it was vital to remember that the evil men who were jeopardising civilisation were also risible little twerps. We've always found Hitler hilarious ? the alternative is much more odious 2011-08-27T23:06:06Z "On the sofa, crying and worrying about the imminent fall of civilisation," will come the reply. Your Face Sounds Familiar – the worst show ever? 2013-07-01T11:07:19Z All of his films have been allegories, stories of small-scale breakdowns in civilisation as a result of societal ruination. Ben Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy' 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z The original image of the wild west, I suggest, contains two elements: the confrontation of nature and civilisation, and of freedom with social constraint. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z Especially regarding the possibility of contact with intelligent civilisations. 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey – how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema' 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z As Scott correctly observes, we have lapsed into a conventional wisdom that the Athens of yore was the bedrock of our civilisation, the "bones, sinews, muscles and lifeblood" of modern democracy and philosophy. TV highlights 27/06/2013 2013-06-27T06:00:06Z Were there some references here to The Mound – HP Lovecraft’s posthumously published novella about an underground Cthulhu-worshipping civilisation, concealed by a Native American burial site? Lovecraft Country recap: season one, episode four – misogyny, murder and Montrose 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Black metal acts like Wolves in the Throne Room often critique the decadence of urban civilisation. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z For all that public angst about British civilisation, this is a culture-gutting government. A great act of vandalism that will impoverish us all 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z The further you head into the desert you find yourself cut off from the dune bashers and civilisation. Great desert adventures: readers’ travel tips 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z She is straightforward in denying the claim that Islam and the west are involved in a "clash of civilisations", castigating writers of various political persuasions who have, blatantly or inferentially, put forward this view. On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review 2013-05-10T11:00:03Z The cultures of the world came to be seen as a living museum in which individual societies represented evolutionary moments captured and mired in time, each one a stage in the imagined ascent to civilisation. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Or, at least, civilisation as he knew it. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z He doesn't want everybody to be perfect: he's just a guy who doesn't want to surrender civilisation to diseases caused by industry. Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Such advanced civilisations would … be able to implement billions of ancestor simulations, each containing billions of minds. Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre – review 2013-02-14T09:01:01Z In the remote Chatham Islands he sees the encounter of civilisation and savagery with a sceptical eye, detecting a deeper pattern of human predation. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z They cannot get a good education, and without that they cannot hope for even minimally secure employment – much less participation in the culture and civilisation of their society. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z So, I extended a water pipe with a diamond-burnished tap outside my gates so the villagers around me could have a feel of civilisation. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z An entire civilisation had collapsed, and the incremental improvement cherished by liberals was simply not possible. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z I set out to chronicle this ongoing erasure in my installation The Dinner Party, a monumental, symbolic history of women in western civilisation through. Don't write women out of art history 2012-10-09T19:15:01Z "There is no clash of civilisations. There is a meeting of civilisations," he said. Kristen Stewart makes awards history 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The fight wasn't just to save the working classes, it was to save civilisation and we believed you couldn't leave it to the Arts Council or the theatres. Appreciation: Corin Redgrave, 1939-2010 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z And even if he has changed, there's every chance the return to civilisation will change him back. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Basically, he’s confident that civilisation can restart there. The Walking Dead: season five, episode two – recap 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The final downfall of these sculptures – their arms already snapped off, their surfaces pitted by erosion and minor vandalism – represented the nadir of a long and complex process of civilisation. The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z He wasn’t simply banging the drum for a pet cause, he was pretty much calling for a rethinking of human civilisation. Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech casts him as Hollywood's poster boy of progress | Steve Rose 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Brancolini Grimaldi in London is showing new work by Domingo Milella, featuring 30 images made over the last decade of historically important sites in the Mediterranean where civilisation and nature overlap. Enrique Metinides: photographing the dead for Mexico's 'bloody news' 2012-11-21T14:26:53Z The rigorous approach of Haneke and co seems to me to follow on from the Viennese psychoanalytic tradition – what else is it their sworn mission to unpeel other than civilisation and its discontents? Austrian cinema: a province shaped by past masters of pessimism 2013-06-19T09:57:23Z Gore believes a planetary civilisation is emerging, but the idea that the spread of global markets and worldwide communications works to dissolve cultural barriers is merely an ideological assumption. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z In his new book he argues that the North Sea rivals the Mediterranean as the cradle of European civilisation. Making waves 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The greatest cities nurture and stimulate ideas in science and the arts that are the very heart of human civilisation. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z The confidence of the riders is an image of civilisation. Horses shaped our art of war and peace 2011-08-29T09:44:37Z He plays Dug, a bucktoothed cave-kid who spearheads a stone age tribe’s contest with a more sophisticated bronze age civilisation through the medium of football. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The clash of civilisations is continuing to bear new fruit. Flying Kites across the world 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z Ford's Provence was an ideal lost world, one of the cradles of civilisation, and a reference point in his fiction. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Psychic TV's Genesis P-Orridge may have been called a "wrecker of civilisation" in the House of Commons and undergone feminising surgery in the name of art, but Meyer found him "lovely – like your favourite auntie". Pop music's mavericks: 'I might install speakers in my jacket' 2011-07-28T20:59:01Z Walter Benjamin said in the Philosophy of History that "there is no document of civilisation which is not at the same time a document of barbarism". Radio review: Going to the Flicks 2011-01-17T08:00:04Z Rolling down Atlantic swells, I often toyed with the idea that the world would be a different place when I next reached civilisation. ‘My sailing trip changed me, and the world I left behind’ 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z This internal battle between emotion and reason is one of the great narratives of western civilisation. Omotions are cultural – not built in at birth | Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z "Consider how all the great civilisations fall, the marks of their last days." Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Powerful carvings of humans fighting centaurs depict this as a war between reason and savagery, with centaurs as the wild enemies of Athenian civilisation. Horses shaped our art of war and peace 2011-08-29T09:44:37Z They look like the hastily vacated remnants of a future cosmic civilisation. Louis Kahn: the brick whisperer 2013-02-26T21:00:02Z "Artists are the radical voice of civilisation," the 87-year-old said in his speech at the the Governors Awards event. Belafonte handed honorary Oscar 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Now he's off around the world to be underwhelmed by the most celebrated achievements of civilisation. Tonight's TV highlights: Highgrove: Alan Meets Prince Charles 2010-09-22T23:04:00Z In short, civilisation has squeezed the wildness out of our environment and out of us. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z One 42-year-old father painted a Goya-like picture of his children’s adult life, “a hot-house hell, with wars over limited resources, collapsing civilisation, failing agriculture, rising seas, melting glaciers, starvation, droughts, floods, mudslides and widespread devastation”. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Nor is overeating the only problem that plagues modern affluent civilisations. Bee Wilson | No diet, no detox: how to relearn the art of eating 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The beneficent power of this civilisation makes human beings spectators of their own endeavours – fatalists all. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-27T21:50:00Z Even the jokey Thor Ragnarok smuggled in a message about wealthy civilisations erasing their history of colonial violence and exploitation. Taika Waititi: 'You don't want to be directing kids with a swastika on your arm' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Intervening in the affairs of benighted worlds is the Culture, an intergalactic civilisation characterised not just by supreme technological power but also what its inventor called "well-armed liberal niceness". Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-08-10T21:55:06Z But civilisation would not have advanced without long periods of productive peace. John Gittings: What I'm thinking about ... peace and war 2012-08-23T09:51:46Z There appear to be fleeting glimpses of mummified Engineers and ruined cityscapes in the trailer, suggesting this world once boasted a highly advanced civilisation that was perhaps overrun by a xenomorph infestation. Alien: Covenant trailer: five things we've learned about the xenomorph saga 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Yes, you read it right: faced with the imminent velociraptor- and T rex-inspired demise of human civilisation, Hollywood's answer is to up the ante by throwing cleverer dinosaurs into the mix to kill them. Jurassic Park IV: something has survived (and it seems to be half human) 2012-10-12T16:01:56Z It's an alluring image, the Tory leader thousands of miles from civilisation, trying to make brown crab linguini out of twigs and sand. Nick Clegg is runaway general election victor (in bookish vote) 2010-05-05T14:34:00Z He writes in French, but with a rich appreciation of the history of the Middle East, and of its endlessly competing empires and civilisations. Amin Maalouf: profile 2011-03-30T11:50:59Z Readers might suppose that, in Islam’s golden age, Mecca, like Baghdad and Damascus, was a centre of culture and civilisation. Sacred and profane 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Quoting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he called the conflict between Israel and Hamas "a fight between good and evil, between light and darkness, between civilisation and barbarism". US evangelicals drive Republican support for Israel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z "The greatest threat to Western civilisation today is not Russia," he says in a March video. What a Donald Trump second term would look like 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Netanyahu said all wars have unintended civilian casualties and Israel's assault on Gaza was a battle between "civilisation and barbarism," calling on allies to back Israel. Hamas says it fires on Israeli troops pressing Gaza ground assault 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Netanyahu said all wars have unintended civilian casualties and Israel's assault on Gaza, which Hamas controls, was a battle between "civilisation and barbarism," calling on allies to back Israel. Netanyahu says Israel will not pause war against Hamas 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The fishing industry employees 2,000 people in Tyre, a centre of ancient civilisation from where the Phoenicians sailed all over the Mediterranean. Lebanese boats warned off fishing areas amid border clashes 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z With this project we are basing our search on the common assumption that civilisations elsewhere in the Universe may employ similar technologies to those developed on Earth. Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z "While it is enacted to promote patriotism, the law stresses the need to be rational, inclusive and open-minded, open the country wider to the world and embrace other civilisations," Xinhua said. China passes patriotic education law for children, families -state media 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Artefacts created by the Scythian civilisation are among Ukraine's best-known historical heritage. Stolen ancient artefacts from Ukraine recovered in Spain 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Scientists have unveiled a sprawling burial site in India belonging to one of the world's earliest urban civilisations. The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z At a conference event, Mrs May said she did that "because climate change is the greatest threat to civilisation". Net zero isn't act of economic harm, Theresa May says 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z But the ability of telescopes, such as JWST, to identify the most likely places for alien civilisations to exist means that Seti can focus its search. Why finding alien life in Universe is now 'only a matter of time' 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z The items, the oldest of which date back to the 9th century BC, include works belonging to the periods of the Etruscan civilisation, Magna Graecia and Imperial Rome. Italy repatriates looted ancient artefacts from the U.S. 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z According to excerpts published by Russian media, schoolchildren will now be taught that human civilisation could have come to an end had Vladimir Putin not started his "special military operation" against Ukraine. Russia’s new schoolbook aims to justify war on Ukraine 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z In a century since the civilisation's initial discovery, researchers have unearthed up to 2,000 sites in India and Pakistan. The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The impoverished Palestinian territory was an important trading post for civilisations as far back as the ancient Egyptians and the Philistines depicted in the Bible, through the Roman empire and the crusades. At least 125 tombs discovered at Roman-era cemetery in Gaza 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The museum contains pottery, jewellery and tools that show the diversity of civilisations that once flourished in Darfur, where ethnically-motivated violence has surged again since April. Sudan's cultural heritage in peril as fighting rages 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z According to Mr Sprajc the site probably underwent considerable changes between 800 and 1000 AD before falling victim to the collapse of the Lowland Maya civilisation in the 10th Century. Maya civilisation: Archaeologists find ancient city in jungle 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z "This would have possibly been the end of civilisation. This could not be allowed to happen," the schoolbook says. Russia’s new schoolbook aims to justify war on Ukraine 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The grave pit was often filled with pottery offerings before the coffin was lowered into it, according to Jonathan Mark Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is a scholar of the Indus Valley civilisation. The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Iraq, often described as the "cradle of civilisation", is known, among others, for the world's first writing. Iraq: displays 2800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Though Tunisia has a wealth of historic heritage from ancient civilisations, Berber tribes, Islamic dynasties and Mediterranean naval powers, tourism there is mostly focused on beach resorts and short-stop cruise ships. Tunisia tourist revival a rare bright spot for crisis-hit economy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The only remnants of civilisation come in the form of a blown out pharmacy and food store. Ukraine offensive: BBC visits village liberated from Russian control 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z She said this would help "drive civilisation forward through the unfiltered exchange of information and open dialogue about the things that matter most to us." Twitter: Linda Yaccarino outlines her plans for the social media firm 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Mysteries about the Indus civilisation endure: the writing, for example, has still not been deciphered. The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Behind them you can see larger-than-life statues with matching French inscriptions such as "La Belgique apportant la civilisation au Congo", which translated means "Belgium brings civilisation to Congo". Belgium's Africa Museum rethinks its relationship with Congo 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Prof Ahmed, a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge, said free speech and academic freedom are "fundamental to our civilisation". Arif Ahmed appointed freedom of speech director 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z "So I was, in a way, imprinted by the emotional power that terrestrial alignments with the Sun can have on a culture or civilisation." Manhattanhenge: How to see it this year 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z "The Hebrew Bible is the most influential in history and constitutes the bedrock of Western civilisation," Mr Moses said in a statement. Oldest most complete Hebrew Bible sells for $38m at auction 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Researchers now estimate the presence of at least 500 graves of the Indus society, one of the world's earliest urban civilisations. The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Walk through what remains of Antakya - a crucible of civilisations and religions - and you can see the consequences. Turkey elections: Aftershocks of anger and grief in the quake-hit nation 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Parker was a huge inspiration "playing in an incredible time for civilisation, when culture was leaping ahead". Harry Belafonte obituary: Legendary singer, actor and civil rights activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Many right-wing activists and historians view the Mughals - who ruled large swathes of the Indian subcontinent for centuries - as foreign invaders who plundered Indian lands and corrupted the country's Hindu civilisation. India history debate after chapter on Mughals dropped 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z "Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilisation is black," he added and called on Egyptians to take a stand against the streaming giant. Egyptians complain over Netflix depiction of Cleopatra as black 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z He says that settling humans on other worlds, such as Mars, could preserve civilisation if Earth were to experience a cataclysm, such as a large asteroid impact. Starship gets FAA approval - but what exactly is Elon Musk's space vehicle? 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Scientists say that hair from a burial site in Menorca shows that ancient human civilisations used drugs derived from plants and bushes. People were taking drugs in Spain 3,000 years ago, study finds 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z "Art is civilisation and those who teach it deserve respect." Italian art experts astonished by David statue uproar in Florida 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z They claimed they were inspired to start the project by "the ongoing collapse of the Western civilisation". The Serbian who inspired US Capitol rioters, then emigrated to Texas 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z "We're in the fastest period of innovation in the history of human civilisation… The UK has to be one of the leaders in that field," he said. Tony Blair and William Hague call for digital ID cards for all 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Conference chair Christoph Heusgen, a veteran German diplomat, said organisers had not invited any Russian officials as Putin had "broken with civilisation". War in Ukraine to dominate global security gathering in Munich 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z "I think this is one of the main signs of a civilisation that claims to be developed but that in reality isn't," Vicente said. Thousands protest in Lisbon for animal rights amid constitutional dispute 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z "The pilot tried his best to not hit civilisation or any home," she added. Nepal mourns victims of worst air disaster in decades 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z "Potential of/for violence is what built and sustained the civilisation," he wrote. The Serbian who inspired US Capitol rioters, then emigrated to Texas 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z "Social media in general, especially Twitter, were eroding civilisation," he wrote. Why is Elon Musk spending his time on Twitter, not on the mission to Mars? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Russia, Putin says, is defending Russians in Ukraine against a decadent West that ultimately wants to carve up Russia’s vast resources and eradicate Russian civilisation. Some Russian soldiers in Ukraine unhappy with top brass, nationalist blogger says 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z "A bad drought for 20 years can collapse a whole civilisation - that's the scale that matters to us." Biodiversity: What is a mass extinction and are we causing one? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Russia, Putin says, is defending Russians in Ukraine against a decadent West that ultimately wants to carve up Russia's vast resources and eradicate Russian civilisation. Ukraine conflict spurs some Russians to seek Kalashnikov training 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z In it, he spoke of buying Twitter because he wanted to "try to help humanity", and said he wanted "civilisation to have a digital town square". What next for Twitter under Elon Musk? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z "If civilisation collapses before Mars becomes self-sustaining, then nothing else matters. Human consciousness is gone." Why is Elon Musk spending his time on Twitter, not on the mission to Mars? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Putin said Western countries had "thrown aside the rules" of international affairs in order to maintain their domination and hold down what they saw as "second-class civilisations." Putin says West uses sanctions to hold back rivals 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Greece laid the blame at Turkey's door, saying its "behaviour" was a "shame for civilisation". UN condemns 'deeply distressing' discovery of 92 naked migrants at Greece-Turkey border 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Syria is considered a treasure trove for archaeologists, being home to some of the best preserved relics of ancient civilisations including the Umayyad mosque in Damascus and the ancient city of Palmyra. 'Rare' Roman mosaic found in Rastan, Syria 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z "We have been isolated for seven months, cut off from civilisation. A mobile connection is rare. To have the internet is like a holiday." A rare glimpse of daily life in occupied Ukraine 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The Gaza Strip was once a bustling trade route for civilisations. Gaza farmer finds Byzantine mosaic while planting tree 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z It swings one way and Russia looks west towards Europe, and the country sees itself as an undeniable part of European civilisation. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping: An increasingly unequal relationship 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z A day earlier, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said in a tweet that Turkey's treatment of the migrants was a "shame for civilisation". UN condemns 'deeply distressing' discovery of 92 naked migrants at Greece-Turkey border 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Over the years rock carvings of a previously unknown civilisation have been found in India's western state of Maharashtra. Maharashtra: 'Nowhere in the world can we find rock art of this kind' 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Week-End, released in 1967, was a hard-hitting denunciation of modern French society, a road movie about the end of civilisation, and a message that Godard was finished making commercial films. Jean-Luc Godard: Visionary director's life and films in pictures 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z "Realistically I think we need to use oil and gas in the short term, because otherwise civilisation will crumble," Musk said on the sidelines of an energy conference in the southern city of Stavanger. Elon Musk says world still needs oil and gas 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told a conference of US conservatives that the West is locked in "a clash of civilisations". Hungary's Viktor Orban fires up Texas conservatives 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z "We are protecting humanity and family values. In fact, we are protecting civilisation in its entirety," one of the backers of the law, Senator Ahmed Lawan, said at the time. The Nigerians worried about a bill to outlaw cross-dressing 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z He says that seals of the Harappan civilisation - one of the oldest civilisations in human history that flourished in the Indian subcontinent - also depict the close relationship man shared with animals. Maharashtra: 'Nowhere in the world can we find rock art of this kind' 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Burnt human remains uncovered at the ruins of a Maya city have led to a new theory about the death rites of the ancient civilisation. Maya rulers' ashes turned into pelota balls - expert 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z "One of my less obvious things to be concerned about is the birth rate, and I think its important that people have enough babies to support civilisation so that we don't dwindle away," Musk said. Elon Musk says world still needs oil and gas 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z He added that "a collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilisation faces by far", echoing his previous statements and vocal concerns about a population crisis. Elon Musk became father of twins last year, say reports 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z "Can we travel to other star systems and see if there are alien civilisations?" he asked, adding that the platform could help "civilisation and consciousness". Elon Musk hints at layoffs in first meeting with Twitter employees 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z In a speech to the German parliament on Wednesday, she said Russia was fighting a war to "depopulate and extinguish civilisation" in the eastern Ukrainian region. Russia trying to "extinsguish civilisation" in Donbas - Germany's Baerbock 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z He said: "I love the smell of petrol. I love working offshore away from civilisation." The changing face of the North Sea oil industry 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z In Charles's case, it all began with a community on Reddit devoted to the potential collapse of civilisation. Why is climate 'doomism' going viral – and how do you fight it? 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z "He tried to change civilisation by the sword. He tried to crush culture with fanaticism," Mr Modi said. Aurangzeb: Why is a Mughal emperor who died 300 years ago being debated on social media? 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z However, the discovery of this limestone statue is a reminder of how the strip - part of an important trade route for successive ancient civilisations - was originally a Canaanite settlement. Gaza farmer finds 4,500-year-old statue of Canaanite goddess 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The only way the PR campaign for @PiersUncensored could possibly get any better is if the @guardian review it and say it’s terrible, unwatchable & the end of civilisation as we know it. Talk TV: Piers Morgan attracts mixed reviews after network launch 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z "What is happening is a grief for my family, for our city, for Ukraine, it's a grief for the whole civilisation. I hope our story helps to stop this war." Odesa missile attack: 'My world is destroyed,' says father of baby killed in strike 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z She has made this election a choice about the future of her country's society and civilisation and promised to "restore France's sovereignty". French election: Macron v Le Pen - two visions for presidency 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z History suggests that beef and even pork were consumed widely in ancient India as far back as the Indus valley civilisation. Meat ban in Delhi: What the battle to define India as vegetarian misses 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z "Such discoveries prove that Palestine has civilisation and history, and no-one can deny or falsify this history," he said. Gaza farmer finds 4,500-year-old statue of Canaanite goddess 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He describes France as a once-great nation in steep decline, its Christian civilisation hollowed out by the growing influence of Islam because of uncontrolled immigration. Factbox: France's Macron faces two far-right candidates, an 'Iron Lady' and a left-wing firebrand 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z These are survivalists readying themselves for the end of civilisation. Gucci bag murder: 'Why are shops selling 15-inch machetes?' 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Ukraine is of visceral significance to the Russian Orthodox Church because it is seen as the cradle of Russian civilisation, where in the 10th century Byzantine Orthodox missionaries converted the pagan Prince Volodymyr. Analysis: Ukraine invasion splits Orthodox Church, isolates Russian patriarch 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z He describes France as a once-great nation now in decline, its Christian civilisation hollowed out by the growing influence of Islam and immigration. French far-right presidential candidate offers limited welcome to Ukrainians, says Arab refugees still unwelcome 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "This is the Palestinian people and their ancient Canaanite civilisation." Gaza farmer finds 4,500-year-old statue of Canaanite goddess 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z "Boycott imports to Russia - if they do not adhere to civilised rules, then they should not receive goods and services from civilisation - let the war feed them," he said. Ukraine's president seeks international trade embargo on Russia 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z "If we all unite against climate change, we can survive as a civilisation." Unite against climate change - Ukraine scientist 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z He oversaw the British soldiers and sailors who destroyed of a centuries-old civilisation, looting and burning down the oba's palace in what is now Benin City in the Nigerian state of Edo. The Nigerian artwork challenging British history in St Paul's 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr Musk has previously warned AI risks killing off human civilisation. Musk: Robots to be bigger business than Tesla cars 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z "He really fundamentally believed that beneath the very thin veneer of civilisation, we are ultimately all animals, we are part of the animal kingdom," Royal Academy of Arts director of exhibitions, Andrea Tarsia, told Reuters. London exhibition explores animal instincts of Francis Bacon 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z "They were cultivated around 3000BC during the Indus Valley civilisation. Grown in 21 states, there are region and state specific millets which are part of the food culture and religious rituals." Why I switched to eating grandma's food 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The professor of German civilisation initially got into an email argument with a colleague over a day of debates on racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. French outcry over academic in Grenoble Islamophobia row 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The author of His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman called the plan "a disgrace to civilisation" and "an act of destructive folly" at Hay Festival in 2018. How Hay-on-Wye book lovers fought to save town library 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z He also manages to squeeze in three different recipes for dhals, which he declares to be "India's greatest contribution to the human civilisation". A Nobel prize-winning economist's guide to cooking 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Staff did what they could to make sure he could return to living independently and doctors tried to get him to move back to civilisation where he would have a flat and carers. The man who has lived as a hermit for 40 years 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z A team of French and Saudi archaeologists is now focused on excavating five nearby sites related to the Dadanite and Lihyanite civilisations, important regional powers that flourished 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia excavate forgotten kingdoms 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The boat has been tentatively dated between 830-950 AD, towards the end of the Mayan civilisation's golden age. Ancient wooden Mayan canoe unearthed almost intact in Mexico 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z He set up in Singapore before exploring the ancient civilisations of China, Thailand - then known as Siam - and Cambodia. The pioneering Scots photographer who captured China 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “Part of the crime that’s been committed is that Benin has been portrayed as this dead civilisation,” he said. British Museum accepts Nigerian artist's gift but keeps looted bronzes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Blown, super-turbo charged and armed to the teeth with weaponry and War Boys, the machines that outran the end of civilisation have been unearthed in the greatest barn-find ever recorded. Mad Max: Fury Road’s iconic fleet of post-apocalyptic War Rigs are up for auction 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Ms Sheinbaum said that the Columbus statue "would not be hidden away" but that the civilisations which existed in Mexico before the Spanish conquest should receive recognition. Mexico City to swap Columbus statue for one of indigenous woman 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Around this period, the Mayan civilisation suffered a major political collapse, marked by the abandonment of cities dotted around modern-day Central America - leaving ruins of towering pyramids and other stone buildings. Ancient wooden Mayan canoe unearthed almost intact in Mexico 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Convention on Biological Diversity on Thursday, includes the key Chinese Communist Party concept of "ecological civilisation". China submits draft biodiversity declaration to United Nations 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z “The reparation is not just returning the Bronzes. It’s also acknowledging us, that we’re a living civilisation.” British Museum accepts Nigerian artist's gift but keeps looted bronzes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Some began to worry for their survival as they headed to cooler climes and prolonged their interaction with human civilisation. There and back again: The epic adventures of China's wandering elephants 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The militants are "the enemies of all civilisation, of all humanity," he told BBC World News. 'Taliban actions are a problem for all humanity' 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z In a study released last month, researchers at the UK-based Global Sustainability Institute described New Zealand as "best placed to survive the collapse of global civilisation". Larry Page: Google co-founder granted New Zealand residency 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The community in Chilón are predominantly indigenous descendants of the Mayan civilisation. Covid: The Mexican villages refusing to vaccinate 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z The "life masks" will be arranged around the plinth in the form of a tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations. Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth: Winning artworks announced 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The idea that early strains of plague were slow to spread challenges many theories about the development of human civilisation in Europe and Asia. 5,000-year-old man was 'oldest plague victim' 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z "We have had to source objects from other places and I think we've been very successful in doing that ... what you see here gives everybody a rounded picture of the great civilisations of Iran." 'Epic Iran' puts 5,000 years of artefacts on show at London's V&A 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z "I decided to move to a desert island in Polynesia, away from all civilisation. I wanted to start a new life close to nature." Man living alone on Italian island to leave after 32 years 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z He described Prince Philip's death as an "irreplaceable loss for Great Britain, and for all who hold dear our civilisation". Prince Philip: Every living US president pays respects 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z It says to develop a sense of citizenship and to support integration, pupils should be exposed to the "rich variety of British culture" and the influences on it, from classical civilisation to modern immigration. Race report: What are the key points? 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z That difference explains a lot about us - our biology, our civilisation and the unbelievably affluent lifestyles we all lead - compared, that is, with other animals. The real reason humans are the dominant species 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z The items were uncovered in six "sacrificial pits", said the National Cultural Heritage Administration, which the Shu civilisation used to offer sacrifices in prayers for prosperity and peace. China: 3,000-year-old gold mask sparks online memes 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z He champions overall system change to decarbonise our civilisation. 'It is the question of the century': will tech solve the climate crisis – or make it worse? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z “And we get the equipment necessary to establish a self-sustaining civilisation.” Elon Musk grills Robinhood boss over GameStop row on Clubhouse 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Somewhere in the dark, vast abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, deep beneath the waves, lies a civilisation. Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring a memorial to slavery at sea 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The battle for control of Tigray - which lies at the heart of the ancient civilisation of Aksum - is in its third month. Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: 'My wife died giving birth to twins while we hid' 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Settling other planets would place some of the eggs in other baskets, sparing human civilisation if one of them were to experience a cataclysm. What is Elon Musk's Starship? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z A repurposed quote from the thinker Thomas Sowell foreshadowed what was to come: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilisation, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” Baked Alaska, the QAnon Shaman … who led the storming of the Capitol? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z "The euthanasia law is a defeat for civilisation and a victory for the culture of death, for those who believe that some lives are more worthy than others," said Vox leader Santiago Abascal. Spain moves closer to legalising euthanasia 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The copper discs, designed to last a billion years, were intended as a message from Earth to alien civilisations, with speech, music, sounds and even pictures encoded in the grooves. Why The Avalanches ditched their record collection 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Winston Churchill praised the 33rd US president for doing “more than any other man” to save western civilisation. 'He understands Washington': Joe Scarborough finds echoes of Truman in Biden 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Writing in the Observer, Harold Nicholson called it “a highly intelligent portrait of an eccentric city”, which “gives us all the sadness and the beauty of a civilisation that has decayed”. Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Described as one of the greatest civilisations of the ancient world, it was once the most powerful state between the Roman and Persian empires. Ethiopia crisis: Arrest warrants for officers amid Tigray fighting 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Insisting he respected cultures and civilisations, he said “nevertheless I am not going to change our laws because they shock elsewhere”. EU must assert autonomy in face of US-China dominance, says Macron 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z It is a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance depicting one of the most celebrated images in civilisation. A family feud, a mystery firm and the Botticelli masterpiece that quietly vanished 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z You forced your civilisation upon us and now look where we are: global pandemic, climate crisis, species extinction and, driving it all, widespread spiritual poverty. This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth | Nemonte Nenquimo 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Vast expanses of life-sustaining ecosystems that undermine the fabric of human civilisation are disappearing and this month, the drumbeat of studies and reports highlighting humanity’s destruction of nature is growing louder and louder. Xi Jinping to address world leaders at UN biodiversity summit – live 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z One of the caves showed evidence of 46,000 years of human habitation, making it some of the earliest evidence of human civilisation. Aboriginal group says Rio Tinto ignored pleas to save sacred cave from blast 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z From a block away, it looks like a craft from a more advanced civilisation has landed in the centre of Rotterdam. The museum of everything: do you have time to look at 150,000 exhibits? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Charlie Kirk, 26, of the student group Turning Point USA, set the tone early on by describing Trump as “the bodyguard of western civilisation” under mortal threat. RNC 2020: a two-hour glimpse into the upside-down world of Trump TV 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Speaking in Arlington, Virginia, he added: “The future of our country, and indeed our civilisation, is at stake on November 3rd.” 'Four days to defend the indefensible': Republicans seek to sell Trump to the nation again 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z She writes: “Eurasia with maybe a few hundred thousand souls is very different to today’s teeming millions … We have no guidebook for the destination our sprawling, industrialised, unimaginably complicated civilisation faces.” Horse eyeballs and bone hammers: surprising lives of the Neanderthals 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Therefore, they would be placed under temporary European rule as "a sacred trust of civilisation." How a peace conference’s failures a century ago set the stage for today’s anti-racist uprisings 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z A thread: I’ve grown up inspired by Greece’s most enduring contribution to civilisation - democracy. Victoria records 17 coronavirus deaths on Australia's deadliest day of pandemic so far 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z In Phoenix Point, a video game that, with spooky timing, came out last December, a deadly virus becomes an evil alien mind bent on destroying civilisation. The Covid novels are arriving. And they'll be a warning to future generations | Laura Spinney 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z I was stunned to read 15 years ago that civilisation was in danger because of fossil fuels. Danny Lyon’s best photograph: two boys and a puppy in Knoxville 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Pandemics begin when human civilisation rubs up against the wildlife-rich, tropical rainforests of west Africa, the Amazon basin and south-east Asia. First Thing: Trump's national security adviser has coronavirus 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z In a message marking Greece’s 46th anniversary of the restoration of democracy, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called Turkey a “troublemaker”, and the conversion an “affront to civilisation of the 21st century”. Turkey condemns Greek reaction to Hagia Sophia prayers 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z “Trzaskowski is an enemy of what it means to be Polish, which is tradition, the nation, Christianity ... He supports the attack on our civilisation,” Stasko said. Values or economy? Right-wing Poles weigh options in election runoff 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z They queried her stories about African wealth and civilisation. 'How George Floyd's death changed my Chinese students' 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Perched on top of a remote, wind-swept hill in rural mid-Wales sits a series of structures designed to protect us against "one of the most significant risks to human civilisation". The man helping protect against 'extinction event' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Duda argues he is simply defending Poland’s moral “backbone” that is rooted in European Christian civilisation. Pandemic? Recession? In Polish vote, gay rights in focus again 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z And besides, in the context of Egyptian civilisation, a century is a mere blip. Unfinished, abandoned, demolished: how Cairo is losing architecture it never knew it had 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z He added that, while numerous ancient civilisations had counting systems, the evidence lies primarily in texts in various forms that they left behind. Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Going through my credit card bills this week was like watching recovered movie footage from a lost civilisation. Doing my US tax return has made me re-evaluate my pre-lockdown life | Emma Brockes 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z He not only recommended the show and told PTV to air it but said it would help Pakistan understand the significance of Islamic civilisation. 'Muslim Game of Thrones' breaks viewership records 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The team add that our civilisation would need to survive at least another 6,120 years for two-way communication. Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z It drove him to conclude that the Black Death exposed profound weaknesses in human civilisation. Hisham Matar on how the Black Death changed art forever 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The panellists rattle through topics including Ancient Egypt, undiscovered civilisations in Africa and how much Neanderthal DNA is present in humans today. Being part of Radio 4's 'virtual audience' 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The scientists describe the extinction crisis as an existential threat to civilisation, along with climate change and pollution, to which it is tied. Extinction 'existential threat to civilisation' 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “By the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd,” Le Bon wrote, “a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation.” The power of crowds 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Offering the reader mayhem, terror, suspense and a mysterious nemesis, it is a kind of disaster movie for modern civilisation. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z One of the biggest cliches about disasters is that they reveal civilisation as a thin veneer, beneath which lies brutal human nature. 'The way we get through this is together': mutual aid under coronavirus | Rebecca Solnit 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The risk is too great that he would gravitate back to civilisation. Inside the orangutan forest school where the first lesson is survival 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z So a microbe shaking civilisation to its core can’t have come as a complete surprise. Charlie Brooker: 'I assumed I would end up stumbling through rubble eating rats. This confirms it' 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Scientists have warned that humanity’s “promiscuous treatment of nature” must change if we are to avoid more deadly disease outbreaks, which often occur when civilisation clashes with natural habitats. First Thing: The climate can't take a return to 'business as usual' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The other, only slightly less troubling, is something that leads to an irrevocable collapse of civilisation, reducing surviving humanity to a prehistoric state of existence. What if Covid-19 isn't our biggest threat? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most important of these was that early civilisations began to move away from living as hunter-gatherers and started to cultivate crops for food. Crops cultivated in Amazonia '10,000 years ago' 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z There are no neighbours, aside from day-trippers between May and mid-July, leaving them to an existence mostly cut off from civilisation. Self-isolating among the puffins 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Leading scientists also said the Covid-19 outbreak was a “clear warning shot”, given that far more deadly diseases existed in wildlife, and that today’s civilisation was “playing with fire”. Coronavirus: 'Nature is sending us a message’, says UN environment chief 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Living behind screens, passing between capsules – our houses, cars, offices and shopping malls – we persuaded ourselves that contingency had retreated, that we had reached the point all civilisations seek: insulation from natural hazards. Covid-19 is nature's wake-up call to complacent civilisation | George Monbiot 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z A civilisation that could accommodate a business like Vivos was a civilisation that had in some sense already collapsed. Real estate for the apocalypse: my journey into a survival bunker 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z “Well, one thing I found interesting is this false impression that gender fluidity or ‘dismantling the gender binary’ is a recent millennial fad, when, for centuries of human civilisation, there have been variances in gender. Mae Martin: ‘It’s enriching to share things you’re ashamed of’ 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Having spent several months researching how these objects came into existence, I felt strangely humbled by seeing them preserved there, as if I was in the presence of artefacts from some once mighty civilisation. Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z In the great bubonic plagues we saw civilisation in the affected areas falter, but recover. Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z They also conjure up a sense of southern luxury that somehow puts you in mind of civilisation rather than inequality, as with feasting everywhere. From Nelson's apple to beef wellington: how war changes the way we eat 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z I was looking out over a country born in savagery and genocide, built on the ruins of a conquered native civilisation, and the bunkers seemed to me like the return of a repressed apocalypse. Real estate for the apocalypse: my journey into a survival bunker 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z At many levels, the story of civilisation is a story of the seas – but it is easy to overlook that from land. What four years at sea taught me about our relationship to the ocean 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z An alien, presented with only these objects as evidence, would have to assume that the civilisation that produced them was naively optimistic, concerned primarily with jolly novelties and with no coherent sense of style whatsoever. Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z No one knows what the future holds for their children and grandchildren: tipping point after tipping point is being reached, casting doubt on the form of future civilisation. ‘The only uncertainty is how long we’ll last’: a worst case scenario for the climate in 2050 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z “This turns that around and says, ‘What if some other civilisation were watching our sun?’” said Siemion. Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It was so quiet here I could hear the soft buzzing of electricity in the power lines above me, the brittle snap and hum of technological civilisation itself. Real estate for the apocalypse: my journey into a survival bunker 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z What a rich, teeming bundle of civilisations – in food, manners, architecture, language, and each nation state profoundly and proudly different from its neighbours. Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z I was seeing the rabbit not as I had seen it a moment before, as an intriguing relic of the submerged civilisation of my childhood, but as I had seen it as a small boy. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z To stoke his evangelical base he presents his rivalry with Iran as a clash of civilisations. The Guardian view on Trump’s war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? | Editorial 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Astronomers will sweep the entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life for the first time, using 28 giant radio telescopes in an unprecedented hunt for alien civilisations. Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Is it like being released back into civilisation: no more schedules, night shoots or relentless promo tours? Alfie Allen: ‘The only competition on Game Of Thrones was over who had the best six-pack’ 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The Mayans built one of the greatest civilisations of the western hemisphere, which flourished across central America including what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Archaeologists discover remains of vast Mayan palace 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The Mayan civilisation flourished before Spain conquered the region. Dig uncovers large Mayan palace in Mexico 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Before the intrusion of civilisation into their territories, hunter-gatherers were “non-sedentary” people – perpetual wanderers. ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The site says Kailaasa also has its own cabinet, and government departments of homeland security, commerce, treasury, housing, technology and “enlightened civilisation”. Fugitive Indian guru establishes island nation 'off Ecuador' 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z But about 5,000 miles away, in a town near the German capital of Berlin, North Korea’s “epitome of modern civilisation” probably sounded especially hollow on Tuesday. North Korea just opened its socialist ‘utopia’ town. Similar endeavors elsewhere are crumbling away. 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z This week scientists warned the world may already have crossed a series of climate tipping points posing an “existential threat to civilisation”. Hundreds of thousands of students join global climate strikes 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z This risk is “an existential threat to civilisation”, they say, meaning “we are in a state of planetary emergency”. Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Tutankhamun was the son of a king, Amenhotep IV, who overturned this civilisation’s pantheon of animal-headed deities and replaced them with a new sun god, Aten. Original tomb raider: was Tutankhamun buried in someone else's grave? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z New evidence suggests that pre-Columbian Amazonian civilisations were comparable in scale and complexity to better-known Andean and Mesoamerican cultures. Archaeologists fear Bolsonaro agenda will kill Amazon civilisation research 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The trial heard much about his ideology - an amalgam of neo-Nazism, Satanism and misanthropy, allied to the belief that a collapse of civilisation should be "accelerated" through acts of violence and criminality. Teen neo-Nazi became 'living dead' 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The right never see themselves as racists or bigots; they see themselves as victims who are fighting back against the imminent extinction of western civilisation. Donald Trump Jr’s disastrous book launch may seem funny – but there’s a very dark side to the booing | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “We are both ancient civilisations and should join hands to deliver greater benefits to our peoples,” he told the Greek PM. Xi Jinping comes to Greeks bearings gifts 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z If we all just settle into small, mutually ignorant online support groups exchanging comforting half-truths, then civilisation is in for a rough ride. ‘Smartphones are worse than nuclear weapons’: an extract from David Mitchell’s new book 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Rondônia – now one of Brazil’s most deforested states –was once a crucible of South American civilisation. Archaeologists fear Bolsonaro agenda will kill Amazon civilisation research 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The most extreme figure is Teresa who admires Steve Bannon and is excited by the idea of a war to save western civilisation. Hard talk: Broadway gets tough on America in crisis 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z "I am sure that Italian judges will understand and forgive an act born from a civilisation of aircraft and war violence, a civilisation which overwhelmed this uncultured peasant." 'The longest and most spectacular plane hijack' 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z |
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