Beneath the shadow of castles and cathedrals medieval Europe was far from primitive this is the story of how science art and ...

It’s a boy”, Sir Mark Sykes, the government’s negotiator on the Middle East, told the Zionist leader, Chaim Weizmann, eventually to be the first president of Israel, on October 31, 1917. Two days ...

Across Ukraine and Russia, archaeologists have unearthed massive rings of mammoth bones built by Ice Age humans. Once thought to be shelters, new research suggests they were ceremonial or social ...

In "The True History of Chocolate", anthropologists Sophie D Coe and Michael D Coe trace chocolate back to ancient ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Cats. You can’t deny they have a certain mystique. Long before we were making memes about them on the internet, ...

Throughout the making of Scream, Welch says she channelled Mary Shelley and the Brontë sisters through the lens of nineties ...

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The weirdest-looking moths on Earth are so strange, they look like they flew straight out of a vivid dream — or a nightmare.

The 1994 murder of Springfield, Virginia, artist Robin Warr Lawrence, 37, would go cold for decades — until DNA left on a ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

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