history
For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform “parasites” and persuade people to support the communist cause.
Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
“Spanish Stonehenge” contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.
The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
There are nearly 100 towns named “Troy.”
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
From Ramses II to Alexander the Great, these leaders helped shaped the world we know today.
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.
Time will tell what the reign of Charles III will look like, but one thing is for sure: the “new Elizabethan age” is long gone.
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
Though difficult to watch, films like “Shoah” and “Life of Crime” cover topics that should not be ignored.
The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.
Salt causes a dehydration-like state that encourages the conversion of the starch in the french fry to fructose.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
When Cameroon’s Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
“Strategic ambiguity” has long been the West’s strategy on Taiwan.
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.