Is Fall of Civilizations coming back?
Fall of Civilizations (2020–present) — war · mystery · history on YouTube
The answer: Between seasons — last episode December 16, 2025, no return date announced yet.
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About Fall of Civilizations
Why do civilizations collapse? What happens afterwards? And what did it feel like to watch it happen? Paul Cooper explores the reasons behind the collapse of a different civilizations from a wide variety of locations and eras. In each hour-plus episode, Cooper investigates what these disparate civilizations had in common, why they failed and what did it feel like to watch it happen? Repurposing information previously presented as a podcast, Cooper illustrates his texts with aerial drone footage, stunning landscapes, maps and satellite images, haunting ruins, and battle reenactments.
Fall of Civilizations episode schedule
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Aired · 23
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| December 16, 2025 | S1·E23 | Persia - An Empire in Ashes |
| April 2, 2025 | S1·E22 | The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe |
| April 30, 2024 | S1·E21 | Egypt - Fall of the Pharaohs |
| June 18, 2023 | S1·E20 | Carthage - Empire of the Phoenicians |
| November 3, 2022 | S1·E19 | Bagan - City of Temples |
| July 17, 2022 | S1·E18 | The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra |
| April 22, 2022 | S1·E17 | Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors of South India |
| October 16, 2021 | S1·E16 | The Assyrians - Empire of Iron |
| July 31, 2021 | S1·E15 | The Inca - Cities in the Cloud (Part 2 of 2) |
| July 25, 2021 | S1·E14 | The Inca - Cities in the Cloud (Part 1 of 2) |
| February 6, 2021 | S1·E13 | Byzantium - Last of the Romans (Part 2 of 2) |
| January 31, 2021 | S1·E12 | Byzantium - Last of the Romans (Part 1 of 2) |
| December 5, 2020 | S1·E11 | China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames |
| October 28, 2020 | S1·E10 | The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds (Part 2 of 2) |
| October 28, 2020 | S1·E9 | The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds (Part 1 of 2) |
| August 16, 2020 | S1·E8 | The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities |
| July 19, 2020 | S1·E7 | The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold |
| June 5, 2020 | S1·E6 | Easter Island - Where Giants Walked |
| May 4, 2020 | S1·E5 | The Khmer Empire - Fall of the God Kings |
| April 14, 2020 | S1·E4 | The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun |
| April 9, 2020 | S1·E3 | The Mayans - Ruins Among the Trees |
| April 8, 2020 | S1·E2 | The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse |
| April 8, 2020 | S1·E1 | Roman Britain - The Work of Giants Crumbled |
