Natural disasters shaped life in the Middle Ages in powerful ways. In this video, we look at how events like floods, famines, ...

A aron Brown was working as a CIA case officer in 2018 when he wrote a post for an agency blog warning about what he called ...

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A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

Newly uncovered wooden tools from Pleistocene China reveal complex, plant-focused technology far earlier than expected in East Asia. Researchers working at the Pleistocene-era Gantangqing site in ...

Researchers in China unveil the oldest complex wooden technology, pushing back the timeline for sophisticated tool use.

The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...

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