Had you remained in charge, you might have kept order the old-fashioned way: chopping off hands, starving millions, enslaving the disobedient—as King Leopold II of Belgium did to 10 million Congolese.

Archaeological finds, from fossils to dug-out pottery, are like glimpses of the past that provide unknown information about ...

Elon Musk says the combined entity creates the "most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine," and marks "not just ...

The Mycenaeans of Ancient Greece, known for Homer’s Iliad and cyclopean walls, were also Europe’s first record keepers.

There’s been some pretty radical concepts introduced in the Star Trek Franchise in an effort to keep things fresh over nearly ...

The lack and loss of memory is the Achilles’ heel of modern civilization and is at the root of our contemporary tribulations ...

Firaxis has three in-house historians who do research for the games, but often hires outside consultants in areas where their ...

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Assignations were in the news, along with civil rights protests and curfews, the Beatles were fighting, Charles Mason and his harem of murderers were active, and there was a real war on TV every day.

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, worries about danger and disruption to civilization “unless humanity wakes up.” ...

Anthropology and Archaeology Professor Andrew Scherer explores social and ritual contexts of precolonial Mayan violence.