When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...
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Scientists say they cracked how an advanced ancient society vanished
Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ...
Dr. Tim Pauketat wants to change the way people think about pre-Columbian America. "Most people tend not to think of history before the arrival of Columbus, and they think of the ancient past as ...
Throughout history, numerous ancient technologies have left researchers and historians pondering the true capabilities of early civilizations. Were they more advanced than we give them credit for? By ...
A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...
Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...
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