[animation] Ancient Greeks were first to build a railway
Corinth was a powerful city-state in the Ancient Greek world and controlled both maritime and land traffic between the northern......
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Polynesians sailed to South America long before European colonists
The ancestors of Polynesians are believed to take their roots from northern Philippines, Taiwan and possibly southeastern China......
Researchers learned why Earth’s largest ape went extinct more than 200,000 years ...
Gigantopithecus blacki are known to be the largest ever apes who lived on our planet. They died out between 295,000 and 215,000......
Thirty-eight years ago, the world watched a 13-year-old girl die in agony
The eruption of the volcano Nevada del Ruiz in Colombia on 13 November 1985 destroyed the town Armero and 13 other villages.......
An American helped Soviet Russia mine gold for industrialization (part 2)
Read part 1 here. One of them was John Dickinson "Jack" Littlepage. From 1928 to 1937 he was employed to......
An American helped Soviet Russia mine gold for industrialization (part 1)
One of them was John Dickinson "Jack" Littlepage. From 1928 to 1937 he was employed to coordinate the gold mining......
Scientists announced the start of a new epoch in Earth’s history
Over the last 11,700 years, we all lived in the Holocene epoch, a relatively stable period that enabled human civilization to......
The world’s oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia
A joint team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University, both in the United Kingdom, has discovered that almost......
How the Muscovites betrayed the Ukrainian Cossacks to create the Russian Empire
Tsarist historiography justifies the annexation of territories inhabited by Ukrainians - the majority of the old Kievan Rus -......
Why India removed Darwinism and Muslims from textbooks
The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has removed references to the 19th century English naturalist......
Human ancestors were almost extinct 900,000 years ago
Before growing to more than 8 billion people as of early September 2023, the human population nearly perished some 900,000 years......
Why did ancient Greeks compete naked at Olympic Games?
It is hard to imagine participants in the Olympic Games or other sporting events competing in the nude today. That would defy the......
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