Sugarcane, slaves, empire-toppling — the story of rum
This spirit had a very busy history.
Tag: history
Famous Egyptologist reports the discovery of a whole ancient settlement
Not everyday that you find a city.
The spicy history of how pumpkin spice got so popular
Your favorite autumn latte has quite the troubled history -- and no pumpkin.
New approach of dating pottery involves analyzing traces of old meals
It's always good to know how old a pot is.
Humans figured out how to start fires way sooner than expected
Ancient humans knew how to handle and make fire earlier than assumed.
Cities from 9,000 years ago had pretty much the same problems as those of today, study finds
"Many of the challenges we have today are the same ones they had in Çatalhöyük — only magnified," say the ...
The delicious history of ice cream throughout the ages
From ancient wars in Persia to the breakups of today, ice cream has carried us through the tough and the ...
The kill rate in Game of Thrones is actually quite realistic, a new study reveals
Don't blame George Martin or HBO for killing your favorite character -- blame reality!
Ancient trash suggests climate change helped drive the Byzantine Empire into the ground
No army can fight on an empty belly. Neither can an empire.
Divine punishment didn’t goad us into building civilization — it was the other way around
And then the gods said, "don't be a douchebag and we’re chill".
A look at how the world invented pizza
Grab a slice!
Globalization is an ancient practice, new research reveals
Cooperation is the key to success!
Ancient pottery portrays perilous path for agriculture under climate change
Don't scrub your pots too hard -- you're destroying precious climate evidence!
Supermassive black holes eventually stop star formation
Supermassive black holes slowly eject cold gas.
Book Review: ‘Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve’
A must-read book spanning time and science.
Watch the (2nd) biggest book in the world get digitized, all thanks to the British Library
It's not the size of the book that matters, it's how you digitize it.
Earliest Buddhist shrine uncovered right at the birthplace of Buddha
At one of the sites where it's possible that Buddha was born, archaeologists have identified the remains of an ancient ...
Rare and amazing photos of the Wright brothers and their historic flights [GALLERY]
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited as the first men who built an aircraft capable of manned controlled flight. The ...
Empires, institutions and religion arise from war
Peter Turchin, a population dynamicist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and his colleagues finished a study which concluded ...
First evidence of tobacco consumption in Mayan culture found
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