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The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
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Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Never mind.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
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.
There were at least eight other human species, some of whom existed for far longer than we have. Who were they?
The Te’omim Cave in the Jerusalem Hills is filled with skulls and oil lamps — objects a new study says may have been used in dark rituals.
Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.
Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.
A classical equivalent to Chanel No. 5.
Hybrid animals emerge when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery.
In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
It's like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
They had the technology. So why didn't they use it?
Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.
Is the vast "Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area" the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
On the menu: stews, cheese, and fermented drinks.
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
Before Constantine received his history-defining vision, a pagan Sun god paved the way for Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into the Eternal City.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.