New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America...
Year: 2018
UNESCO-listed heritage site Machu Picchu attracts around 1,000 tourists a day. Rodrigo Argenton/Wikipedia, Creative Commons Is UNESCO’s prestigious lists of tangible...
Detail, Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete...
Fresco showing a woman called Sappho holding writing implements from Pompeii Naples National Archaeological Museum. Wikimedia Commons Sappho...
Teeming with secrets… edella/Shutterstock European scientists had pioneered a technique for reading papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum without unrolling...
The world’s biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge. By Dr. David K. Wright / 03.16.2017...
Lucy, born 3.2m years ago. Pat Sullivan/AP It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a...
Photo by Sansibar, Flickr, Creative Commons Taking the red pill, for both the manosphere and the radical right,...
Flickr / Jaguar MENA, Creative Commons When you think about sports, do you consider the science behind...
Zhengwei Liu (left) and Arthur Jaffe are leading a new project to expand quon, their pictorial math...
Japanese soldiers of the Sino-Japanese War. Wikimedia Commons As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”....
A landing craft from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E onto...
EPA/Peter McDiarmid After decades of deadly enmity, Libya and the West made a major breakthrough on weapons of mass...
North Korean women work at the cashier table of a bookstore in Pyongyang, North Korea. AP Photo/Ng Han...
Ötzi the Iceman has come to life. Simon Claessen/Flickr, CC BY-SA Here’s what one man from around 3,300 BCE...
The Mummy, in its 2017 rendition, rehashes an 80-year-old franchise focused on revived Egyptian corpses. AlloCine Mummies are scary...
Aaron Douglas. “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction.” Oil on canvas, 1934. The New York...
Detail from The BEGGARS Delight, EBBA 34937. As explored later in the essay, this woodcut would be reused...
Walmart employees picket outside of a Walmart store in Los Angeles, California on November 29, 2013. (Photo: Aurelio...
Josiah Dennis House, Dennis, Massachusetts / Photo by Thomas Kelley, Wikimedia Commons Was Puritan New England the “cradle”...
William Lloyd’s Coffee House in London specialized in being the first in getting marine news, such as...
By Matthew Merighi / 06.17.2014 Assistant Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program Tufts University They poured gold down...
An Aboriginal rock painting in Kakadu National Park of an early European ship. Wikimedia Commons, Google Art &...
Leo Frank, 1884-1915. Library of Congress Online Catalog, Prints and Photographs Division Fake news has been used in the past to feed into...
Scenes of July 1830, a painting by Léon Cogniet alluding to the July revolution of 1830 / Wikimedia Commons...
Contemporary woodcut depicting the Old Town Square execution of Protestant aristocrats in Prague, 1621 / Wikimedia Commons The Thirty...
Painting depicting the first victory at sea by USS Constitution over HMS Guerriere, by Anton Otto Fischer / Department...
March to Valley Forge, by William B. T. Trego, 1883 / Museum of the American Revolution, Wikimedia Commons...
Ben Birchall/PA Wire From sundials to atomic clocks, a journey through the way humans have measured time. By Dr. Kenneth Grattan...
Where did our written numbers come from? Nikita Rogul/shutterstock.com Linguistic clues show how people around the world first developed mathematical...