A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...
By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...
Throughout history, clothing has not only served as a basic necessity but has also been a powerful form of expression, a ...
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher ItOn a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
Valentine’s Day is nigh upon us. Soon there will be floods of flowers, chunks of chocolate, crowds of cards and maybe even ...
The world is celebrating Valentine’s week and February 13 marks the ‘Kiss Day.’ Kissing is considered as a way to show ...
Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...
Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.
Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.
Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...
By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...
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