Lost Civilizations: Ancient Societies that Vanished Without a Trace, Part 1

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 7:30 a.m.

A stock trope of literature is the king who believes that his kingdom will last forever, only to see it collapse under his own hubris (Exhibit A is Percy Bysshe Shelly's Ozymandias). But the trope is based on historical fact. Many great civilizations...