History

A 21st century nuisance for parents may have proved deadly to early manCredit: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University BROOKLYN, NY - It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals, and…

Technological progress in the Levant fits a 'punctuated equilibrium' modelCredit: E. Ben-Yosef and the Central Timna Valley Project During the late 10th century BCE, the emerging Edomite Kingdom of the southern Levant experienced a…

New study of an ape-like pelvis suggests human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apesCredit: Illustration courtesy of John Siddick COLUMBIA, Mo. - Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque…

Credit: Included in photo When Hennig Brandt discovered the element phosphorus in 1669, it was a mistake. He was really looking for gold. But his mistake was a very important scientific discovery. What Brandt couldn't have…

Purple clothing, gold trimmings, earrings and two- or four-wheeled carriages. Among the elite, competition for status superiority was just as vital to women as it was to men in Rome around 2000 years ago. This has been demonstrated in a…

New discovery by Tel Aviv University-led research group suggests early humans in the Levant were sophisticated and environmentally consciousCredit: Prof. Ran Barkai, Tel Aviv University The Acheulian culture endured in the…

Credit: Michigan Tech In 1886, female students at Vassar College put on a parody of the opera "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan. The work reveals notions about who can or cannot do math. Laura Kasson Fiss accidentally…

Credit: Museum of London Researchers at the University of Bradford have shown a link between the diet of Roman Britons and their mortality rates for the first time, overturning a previously-held belief about the quality of the…

Study of Dead Sea Scroll sheds light on a lost ancient parchment-making technology CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - First discovered in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds looking for a lost sheep, the ancient Hebrew texts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls are some…

The latest analytical techniques available to scientists can confirm the validity of historical sources in some cases, and suggest a need for reconsideration in others. As any historian will tell you, we can rarely take the claims made…