Every civilization the Institute has excavated, catalogued by the systems that define it. Combine the filters to ask the archive a question.

25Civilizations indexed
22Worlds under study
07Departments
03Extinct
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Status
Medium
PolityThe form of rule the Excavation studies
OriginHow the civilization came to be

25 of 25 civilizations

Nº 0025ReligionsThe Tribe That Worshipped a Machine’s DoorThe Sacred Lands, Horizon
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Tribes, Theocracy
Origin
Design, Catastrophe
Nº 0024AnthropologyThe City That Lost the War and Kept Its PoliticsRevachol, Disco Elysium
Status
◐ Contested
Medium
Game
Polity
Occupation, Commune
Origin
Rebellion, Conquest
Nº 0023EcologiesThe Toxic Jungle That Was Healing the WorldThe Sea of Corruption, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Status
● Active
Medium
Manga, Film
Polity
Monarchy, Empire
Origin
Catastrophe, Design
Nº 0022AnthropologyThe People Who Outlived the BombThe Wasteland, Fallout
Status
● Active
Medium
Game, Series
Polity
City-states
Origin
Catastrophe, Design
Nº 0021ObservatoryThe Genealogy of the DragonComparative, Many Worlds
Status
● Active
Medium
Many
Polity
Various
Origin
Various
Nº 0020AnthropologyThe Last Days of AnthemBastion, Anthem
Status
○ Extinct
Medium
Online game
Polity
Player community
Origin
Player-made
Nº 0019MythosphereThe Civilization Beneath Every CivilizationComparative, Many Worlds
Status
● Active
Medium
Many
Polity
Various
Origin
Ruins
Nº 0018ReligionsThe Living Gods of MorrowindVvardenfell, Morrowind
Status
○ Extinct
Medium
Game
Polity
Theocracy
Origin
Revelation
Nº 0017Human ArchiveThe Builders of Fallout LondonLondon, Fallout London
Status
● Active
Medium
Mod
Polity
Player community
Origin
Player-made
Nº 0016AnthropologyThe Corporations That Became StatesNew Eden, EVE Online
Status
● Active
Medium
Online game
Polity
Corporate state
Origin
Colonization, Player-made
Nº 0015EcologiesRain World and the Ecology of Being PreyThe Ruins of the Ancients, Rain World
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Stateless
Origin
Ruins
Nº 0014ReligionsThe Religion Planted on ArrakisArrakis, Dune
Status
● Active
Medium
Book
Polity
Empire, Tribes
Origin
Design, Migration
Nº 0013Extinct WorldsThe City That Refused to DieParagon City, City of Heroes
Status
● Active
Medium
Online game
Polity
Player community
Origin
Player-made
Nº 0012AnthropologyThe Town That Bargained With the PlagueThe Town on the Steppe, Pathologic
Status
◐ Partially documented
Medium
Game
Polity
Oligarchy
Origin
Colonization
Nº 0011AnthropologyThe Civil War Over a Forbidden GodTamriel, Skyrim
Status
◐ Contested
Medium
Game
Polity
Empire, Monarchy
Origin
Rebellion
Nº 0010ReligionsThe Lord of Murder Will Not Stay DeadFaerûn, Baldur's Gate
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Theocracy
Origin
Revelation
Nº 0009EcologiesThe Machine Ecology of Regis IIIRegis III, The Invincible
Status
● Active
Medium
Book, Game
Polity
Machine rule
Origin
Ruins
Nº 0008Human ArchiveThe Citizens of Super EarthSuper Earth and the Galactic War, Helldivers 2
Status
● Active
Medium
Online game
Polity
Military state
Origin
Conquest, Player-made
Nº 0007MythosphereThe Norse Underworld Inside Senua’s MindOrkney and Helheim, Hellblade
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Tribes
Origin
Ancestral
Nº 0006AnthropologyWhy the Wasteland Keeps Rebuilding the Same CivilizationThe Wasteland, Fallout
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Republic, Empire
Origin
Catastrophe
Nº 0005ObservatoryFrom the Tokyo Subway to PersonaContemporary Japan, Persona series
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Various
Origin
Various
Nº 0004Human ArchiveThe Message Culture of the Lands BetweenThe Lands Between, Elden Ring
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Player community
Origin
Player-made
Nº 0003ReligionsThe Cults of the WastelandFallout
Status
● Active
Medium
Game
Polity
Theocracy
Origin
Catastrophe
Nº 0002EcologiesEywa | Anatomy of a Planetary OrganismPandora
Status
● Active
Medium
Film
Polity
Tribes
Origin
Ancestral
Nº 0001Extinct WorldsThe Final Days of WildStarNexus, WildStar
Status
○ Extinct
Medium
Online game
Polity
Empire
Origin
Colonization, Ruins

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