Tag: History

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have ...

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in ...

Neanderthals are often depicted as having straight spines and poor posture. However, these prehistoric humans were more similar to us ...

New University of Sydney research has revealed the ancient Cambodian city of Angkor underwent a gradual decline in occupation rather ...

Where did Earth's global ocean come from? A team of Arizona State University geoscientists led by Peter Buseck, Regents' Professor ...

The study by a team of geographers and archaeologists from UCL and King’s College London, published in Nature Communications, suggests that early ...

The most severe mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred with almost no early warning signs, according to a new study ...

Analysis of fatty residue in pottery from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia revealed evidence of fermented dairy products — soft ...

China has a history of around 5,000 years, but prior to the Qin Dynasty that began in 221 B.C., the ...

Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited the Earth’s atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather and Napoleon’s defeat, says new research. ...