It is thought to date from about 700 AD and to be an example of ancient Peruvian Mochica civilisation art.
The Copenhagen meeting has the potential - more than any gathering of human beings before it - to affect how our civilisation develops.
A civilisation that has the technology to make baby universes would surely find the temptation irresistible.
The cacao bean played an important role in Mesoamerican civilisation, the native civilisation in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to the Spanish exploration and conquest of the 16th century.
Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rare (because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation) that evolution would have ignored it.
For millennia, our archipelago has been home to many currents of civilisation.
But it is the latter, who, with great drive and determination, and a conviction that "science will prevail over superstitions", who have created the civilisation we have today.
By throwing open the doors to the national museum this week, Iraq's leaders hope to turn attention away from current miseries and to celebrate the country's history as the cradle of civilisation.
He argued that the singularity would occur in the mid-21st century, and that barring civilisation-wide disasters it is inevitable.
As this exhibition reveals, no civilisation ever had a stronger belief in the afterlife than Egypt.
But why did a once-mighty civilisation succumb to the West?
If I have understood you correctly, you are proposing to do nothing to prevent the likely collapse of industrial civilisation.
Those opposing action on climate change understand this well and frequently use images of electric light at night in their publicity as a metaphor for excitement, civilisation, and progress.
The theories of yin and yang and the Eight Diagrams in Zhott Yi belong to a peculiar mode of thinking for understanding nature in oriental civilisation, and China's traditional scientific thought is more often than not related with them.
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