Tag: history

This museum exhibit is a reflection of a turbulent part of European history.

In Arizona’s desert, a 500-year-old cannon sheds light on conquest, resistance, and survival.

For decades, Kotoku Wamura was mocked for building an enormous floodgate in his village. But when a massive tsunami struck, ...

Discovered beneath a Lloyds Bank in York, the world's largest fossilized human poop is a scientific treasure.

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Executioners upheld law and order, but their grim profession came with a heavy price.

Life was simpler in the good old days. You worked the land, made your own house, and... dabbled in coca?

The British Industrial Revolution didn't begin in the 1760s, it had started way back in the 1600s but even historians ...

Ice cream went through a wild journey that started more than 2,500 years ago.

Grab a slice!

This spirit had a very busy history.

Not everyday that you find a city.

Your favorite autumn latte has quite the troubled history -- and no pumpkin.

It's always good to know how old a pot is.

Ancient humans knew how to handle and make fire earlier than assumed.

"Many of the challenges we have today are the same ones they had in Çatalhöyük — only magnified," say the ...

Don't blame George Martin or HBO for killing your favorite character -- blame reality!

No army can fight on an empty belly. Neither can an empire.

And then the gods said, "don't be a douchebag and we’re chill".

Cooperation is the key to success!

Don't scrub your pots too hard -- you're destroying precious climate evidence!

Supermassive black holes slowly eject cold gas.

A must-read book spanning time and science.

It's not the size of the book that matters, it's how you digitize it.

At one of the sites where it's possible that Buddha was born, archaeologists have identified the remains of an ancient ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited as the first men who built an aircraft capable of manned controlled flight. The ...

Peter Turchin, a population dynamicist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and his colleagues finished a study which concluded ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient urn dated from the Mayan classical period, which after a thorough chemical analysis was found ...