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A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
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Are we the stories we tell? Kmele sat down with legendary conservationist Jane Goodall, actor Terry Crews and psychologist Dan McAdams to discuss how humanity makes its meaning.
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
Gladiators fought in rounds, and there were referees to enforce rules. Only rarely were gladiators killed.
Scientists don't understand why the correlation exists.
Using peach and eggplant emojis as shorthand for sex may seem like a new thing, but Renaissance artists were experts at using produce to imply intercourse.
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Thinkers like Richard Reeves, Louise Perry, and Judith Butler discuss parenthood and the future of the sexual revolution.
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The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Never mind.
"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.