Mycenaean myths and legends lived on through oral transmission into later stages of Greek civilization and form the basis of Homeric epic and Greek tragedy.
"What we showed was the 'floor' on the probability for a civilization to form on any randomly chosen planet," Frank, a University of Rochester physics and astronomy professor, told The Huffington Post in an email.
While we forbear to try to explain the propensity of agents at all levels from cells to civilizations to form and operate networks of logically synchronized symbol-handling agents, we point to this propensity as an overlooked cosmic order, an order structured by the unpredictability ensuing from the proof.
"No age lives entirely alone; every civilization is formed not merely by its own achievements but by what it has inherited from the past.
Barack and Michelle and the First Couple of France Nicolas and Carla (Bruni) Sarkozy are walking the streets of Normandy, where a good portion of the history of western civilization was formed more than 1,000 years ago.
This document was unearthed during an archaeological dig in what was once Crete, and it provides a unique perspective on how a civilization that formed the bedrock of our culture handled similar crises.
When Vernon mysteriously dies in his sleep, civilization in the form of a police investigation enters the "antique strangeness" of the surviving brothers' isolated existence.
The large suburban painting, "Somerset Division II" (1977) is the culmination of the first decade, and like much of Mr. Homitzky's subsequent work it is unsettling, showing the encroachment of civilization in the form of a housing development in what was a sylvan environment.
Here in southwestern Connecticut, teenage drivers in our semi-rural no-horse town ("boring, boring, bo-ring!") have been feeling the pinch for some months now, since reaching civilization — in the form of movies, the beach, pizza and burger joints — adds an average 10- to 14-mile round trip to the price of amusement.
By the year 2100, total human population has dwindled to 140 million virus-resistant individuals from a pre-outbreak height of 10.2 billion in 2068; following several terrorist attacks by a human insurgency, all remaining humans have been forced to live in the wilderness away from civilization in a form of apartheid-like segregation.
