What tools would an alchemist use in the quest to transmute other elements into gold? David Teniers...
Month: April 2019
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...
Big relief groups often leave poor and rural areas on their own. By Warren Alan Tidwell Recently,...
The ancient Near East, and the Fertile Crescent in particular, is generally seen as the birthplace of...
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected...
What were the causes of the Second World War? Pinpointing the causes of a vast, global event...
The entry of the United States into World War I changed the course of the war, and...
Without its communist Soviet-style economy, North Korea would be South Korea and Kim would lose his fortune....
Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Daoism and Shamanism as practiced historically in Korea, as well...
The architecture of ancient Korea is epitomized by the artful combination of wood and stone. By Mark...
Zoroaster is the name by which this prophet is known in the west (Greek Zoroastres), which is...
Susa began as a small village in the Neolithic Age around 7000 BCE. Introduction Susa was one of...
“The loneliest person who ever lived,” she once called herself. As Brazil attempts to train all eyes...
The assumption that Andean peoples could not have built Tiwanaku is the greatest myth of all. Bolivia,...
From the summer of 1944 till the end of the war in Europe, the US fielded a...
From Zeppelin airships to propaganda leaflet drops, exploring the significant role of aerial warfare in World War...
A trilingual inscription has been discovered on the hillside around the tomb of Darius in Naqshe-Rustam. Two...
It takes about a millennium for dialects to become languages. Simple questions often yield complex answers. For...
A history of the idea of Open Educational Resources and overview the current state of the Open...
The origins of the Board ran through Sam Rayburn’s mentor, fellow Texan John Garner, and Garner’s predecessor...
Renewable wind and solar energy, along with a booming natural gas industry, continue to win the battle...
This practice began earlier with the Ancient Romans, who wrote (literally scratched on letters) on wax-coated tablets,...
The Arch is a huge conglomerate of imperial Roman sculpture as many parts of it were recycled...
Using the family relationships between single-celled protists alive today, researchers hypothesized what their evolutionary ancestors looked like...
Newly found fossils point to a link between a rise in atmospheric oxygen and the first emergence...
As we commemorate Memorial Day, the drama behind the headlines announcing Germany’s surrender in World War II....
From the air and on the ground: the reporters who told the HIroshima and Nagasaki stories to...
Systematic colonization constitutes one of the most powerful and destructive examples of the ability of Victorian representations...
The emergence of colonial migration circuits between Europe and Asia followed the ascendency of European mercantile and...
The pottery of ancient Korea stretches back to prehistory when simple brown wares were made and decorated...