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......
Resident of Russia Far East tried to set Lenin's Mausoleum on fire with Molotov ...
The pyramid-shaped structure where the body of Vladimir Ulyanov alias Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and first head of the Soviet......
Archaeologists discover ancient Maya city in Mexican jungle
The ruins of a previously unknown city of the Maya culture were found in late June 2023 by a team of archeologists deep inside......
British WWII Hurricane planes unearthed outside Kyiv
The remains of eight British Hawker Hurricane fighter planes from World War Two have been discovered in a forest soil south of......
Why did our ancestors eat each other 1.45 million years ago?
A hominin tibia exhibited in Kenya’s Nairobi National Museum since being discovered in the Turkana region in 1970 by famous......
New clues why Neanderthals lost to modern humans
Contrary to widespread beliefs that the prehistoric rivals of our direct ancestors were brainless or weaker brutes, science has......
41 years ago, in June, a democracy beat an authoritarian aggressor
In April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and two smaller islets under the United Kingdom’s......
A native of Ukraine took over the supreme post in the Soviet Union 45 years ago
On 16 June 1977, Leonid Brezhnev, a political commissar turned politician who got promoted to the top of the administrative and......
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