Science How humans created color for thousands of yearsPopular Science - Eleanor CumminsBack before we could paint our world with pixels, we needed precious commodities to make pigments. Most of the hues we look at these days come courtesy of 16,777,216 alphanumeric keys called Hex codes;
Ancient History Immortality of Writers in Ancient Egyptancient.eu - Joshua J. Mark For the ancient Egyptians, life on earth was only one part of an eternal journey which continued after death. One’s purpose in life was to live in …
Population Nobody Knows Why Hundreds of People Died at This Creepy Himalayan LakeVICEA small glacial lake nestled in the world’s highest mountain range is the site of hundreds of unexplained deaths spanning more than 1,000 years, according to a new study. Roopkund Lake, also known as Lake”
Ancient Greece The Swole Women of Sparta Wrestled, Danced, and DrankAtlas Obscura - Jessica Leigh Hester This week, we’re remembering historic leisure activities—ways that people kicked back, chilled out, and expressed themselves throughout the …
Roman Empire Zenobia, the Rebel Queen Who Took On RomeNational Geographic - David Hernández de la FuenteThis ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire equal to Rome. Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the
Ancient History Field of Reeds (Aaru)ancient.eu - Joshua J. Mark A’Aru (The Field of Reeds) was the Egyptian afterlife, an idealized vision of one’s life on earth (also known as Sekhet-A’Aru and translated as The …
Ancient History Martial Arts in Medieval Japanancient.eu - Mark Cartwright There were 18 martial arts (bugei or bujutsu) in medieval Japan, and these included use of weapons, unarmed self-defence techniques, swimming, and …
Science India’s Skeleton Lake Has Bones Separated by CenturiesThe Atlantic - Rachel GutmanHundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there. In a kinder world, archaeologists would study only formal carefully
Pompeii The New Treasures of Pompeii | History | Smithsoniansmithsonianmag.com - Franz Lidz; Photographs by Chiara Goia If you stand inside the ruins of Pompeii and listen very, very hard, you can almost hear the creaking of cart wheels, the tumult of the marketplace, …
Ancient History A History of the Crusadesancient.eu - Mark Cartwright The Crusades were a series of military campaigns waged between Christians and Muslims, Christians and pagans (the Northern Crusades), and Christians …
Geek 7th-Century Skeleton From Mysterious Merovingian Era Unearthed in FranceGeek - By Stephanie Valera In what is being called an “unprecedented” discovery, a limestone sarcophagus containing the skeleton of a woman dating to the 7th century has been …
Ancient History The Impact of Prejudice on the History of Great Zimbabweancient.eu - Jessica Liew Between 850 BCE and 1600 CE, great civilizations thrived in Africa, yet few non-Africans have learned about them. While some may be familiar with the …
Ancient GreeceThese are the 10 oldest jokes in human history — and they prove that people have been laughing about their animals and sexinsider - Bill Bostock In 2008 a group of historians from the UK were commissioned to unearth the oldest joke ever written down. The study was led by humor expert Dr Paul …
Geek Watch: Here’s Why Ancient Romans Drew Penises on EverythingGeek - By Stephanie Valera In 122 A.D., Roman Emperor Hadrian built a wall that stretched almost 80 miles from the Irish Sea to the North Sea in northern England to guard the …
Ancient History 5 facts about the Great Pyramid of Gizahistoryextra.com - Amir Adhamy BBC History Revealed takes a closer look at one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the largest of the three mighty pyramids of the Giza …
Pompeii Archaeologists discovered an invaluable cache of ritual artifacts at PompeiiArs Technica - Jennifer Ouellette The various items may have belonged to a Roman sorceress. Crystals, amber, amethyst, phallic amulets, glass beads, figurines, and a miniature human …
Pompeii Little Penises and Other Tiny Artifacts Were Discovered in PompeiiJezebel - Lauren Evans I’d sort of thought we already knew what there was to know about the ancient city of Pompeii (extremely old; covered in ash; home of snack bars), but …
Pompeii Amulets of Deities, Skulls and Phalluses Found in Ancient Pompeii | Live ScienceLive Science A stash of ancient amulets is seeing the light of day, now that archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed the treasures from under a pile of ash …
Anthropocene The Arrogance of the AnthropoceneThe Atlantic - Peter BrannenOn geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth
Pompeii Archeologists Unearth 'Sorcerer's Treasure Trove' In Pompeii DigHuffPost - Mary PapenfussScientists speculate that a box of crystals, amulets, beetles and miniature figures of animals and penises may have been used for luck or fertility rituals. Archeologists have discovered what scientists
Mark Antony Mark Antonybiography.com Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) is best known as the Roman general who was a lover of Cleopatra. The two committed suicide after their defeat by …
History Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 yearsThe Guardian - Dalya AlbergeGreek historian’s description of ‘baris’ vessel vindicated by archaeologists at sunken city of Thonis-Heraclion In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual
Shipwrecks 2,000-Year-Old Shipwrecks With Cargo Discovered Off Greek IslandGeek - By Stephanie Valera In what is being hailed as an “important find,” five ancient, cargo-laden shipwrecks — one dating back to the 3rd century — have been discovered off …
Mark Antony Antony and Cleopatra's Legendary Love Storybiography.com - Hadley Meares The epic romance between the Egyptian Queen and Roman statesman inspired the tragic Shakespearian play. It is an ending so epic that Shakespeare …
Long-form Journalism It's All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?Atlas Obscura - Dan Nosowitz It’s a curious thing when there is an idiom—structured roughly the same way and meaning essentially the same thing—that exists in a large number of …
Athens In Defense of Spartanewrepublic.com - Nick Burns The alt-right and other fanatics of the ancient civilization are distorting history. Sparta can teach us how to rethink liberal democracy. The city of …
Military History Were there really only 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae?historyextra.com - Amir Adhamy It is considered a heroic last stand by King Leonidas of Sparta and his tiny number of brave warriors against an army of a supposed million …
Roman Empire Everything you need to know about the Holy Roman Empirehistoryextra.com - Amir Adhamy From the cold ashes of the great empire of Rome rose a realm that became the most powerful on the continent – and a precursor to the European Union. …
Sculpture Mesoamerican Sculptures Reveal Early Knowledge of Magnetismsmithsonianmag.com - Joshua Rapp Learn Magnets are a mystery that has baffled scientists and philosophers for millennia, and researchers still don’t fully understand the properties that …
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