Prehistoric arrow flints challenge timeline of first Neanderthal - Homo sapiens ...

Prehistoric arrow flints challenge timeline of first Neanderthal - Homo sapiens ...

For about 300,000 years, Neanderthals dominated European territories until their extinction about 40,000 years ago. Modern......

Why was Laconia ruled by two kings at a time?

Why was Laconia ruled by two kings at a time?

One of the mightiest military powers about 2,700 years ago was the state of Laconia, or Lacadaemon, which is better known as......

[animation] Ancient Greeks were first to build a railway

[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......

Polynesians sailed to South America long before European colonists

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 ...

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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......