In a nutshell Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating ...

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

5, 2024 — A research team has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period ... people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq ...

Surveys the development of philosophy from its beginnings in classical Greece through the early modern period in Europe, culminating in Kant’s philosophical revolution. This two-block course ...

The Parthenon and Greek tragedy arose in this period, along with the historian Herodotus, the physician Hippocrates, and philosopher Socrates. It also gave rise to political reforms that are ancient ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Artists and architects from ancient Greece to the modern era have relied on the golden ratio to make their works of art beautiful. Credit: Sergey Sosnovskiy, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Over the years, millions ...

But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ago? Ancient civilizations around the world had clever inventions that were so ahead of their time that ...

A pioneering study discovered a previously unknown human lineage in Africa that dates back 50,000 years when modern human ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

The course surveys major developments in painting, sculpture and architecture from the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean world, to the Middle Ages, Renaissance, early modern and revolutionary ...