How can we ever learn to go forward if we ignore the mistakes committed in our history. There seems to be a movement to ignore our history – we do so at our own peril.
It is probably not a good idea to mess with a prehistoric woman, since prehistoric women actually had stronger arms than modern rowing crews. This comes from a brand new study that compared bones from Central European women who dwelled…
There is no doubt that wartime medicine is very challenging place for a doctor, nurse, and paramedic to use their craft and skills. It is certainly an environment where intense improvisation is often required. This is because so many injuries…
About 13,500 years ago, the Clovis people wondered over the Beringia—which was the land-bridge that connected Alaska to Siberia. It was not ice covered at the time and had sufficient game to sustain them on such a journey. This is how…
For many of us, religious traditions are simply activities that occur on the weekends or only when the holidays come around. But the amazing thing about some religions is that they sometimes come with the requirement for members to perform…
Archaeologists from the University of Sheffield have been investigating exactly how lead poisoning affected the overall human health of the Roman Empire. This exciting new research is being led by two people. The first is University of Sheffield’s Department of…
We all know what the history books tell us – that humans were hunters and gathers for about 250,000 years. And then around 10,000 years ago, a group of people solved the puzzle of agriculture from which the first seeds…
Here it is finally the year of 2017, and conspiracy theorists from all over the world are anxiously waiting for the releasing of thousands of sealed government documents never ever seen before which pertain to John F. Kennedy’s assassination. These…
All across the ages, people have always searched for reasons to distrust governments based on democracy. It is no secret that societies from the west have placed a supreme value on democracy, but this has not always been the case.…
At least 34,000 years ago, it seems that early humans recognized that inbreeding was not desirable, and created some fairly sophisticated social and sex networks in order to avoid it, a new study has discovered. This study was first reported…
