Tag: History

With an asteroid and a lunar crater named in his memory, there is no doubt that Guo Shoujing’s legacy...

While the human hand is the obvious tool of choice for an astounding number of physical tasks, it was...

Deep within an isolated part of India, there lies a collection of 30 caves that, for centuries, was an...

The name "opal" derives from the Latin word opalus, which means "precious gem," as well as from the Greek...

Could this planet have harbored lost civilizations similar to our own in the remote past? To truly understand...

For the great size and magnitude of the beasts that walked our earth hundreds of millions of years ago...

A team of Australian scientists recently announced that they have discovered the last resting place of...

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