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The rise and fall of great world cities: 5,700 years of urbanisation – mapped
Recent research provides a better understanding of urban populations throughout history, digitising almost 6,000 years of data for the first time. By Kanishk Tharoor. (June 27, 2016)
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Power to the people?
Mary Beard on direct democracy and the EU referendum
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Berserkers and jihadis alike have used drugs to help wage war
Killing people is hard and horrible. No wonder that warriors, from berserkers to jihadis, need drugs to get in the mood. By Peter Frankopan.
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World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of ‘sea people’
The Trojan War depicted in Homer's Iliad may have been part of a larger clash of civilisations – one of which has so far gone unrecognised by modern historians. By Colin Barras. (May 12, 2016)
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Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers
The ancient tribes of the Eurasian steppes that helped lay the foundations of Europe might have initiated a cross-continental trade in cannabis. By Colin Barras. (July 7, 2016)
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1177 B.C. was the kind of year people try to forget
Scott McLemee reports on a book that takes us all the way back.
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Why all civilised people should love wasps
All gardeners, and all readers, have reason to thank them. By Simon Barnes.
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King, magician, general… slave
Eunus and the First Servile War against Rome. By Mike Dash.
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SETI: Detecting ‘Stellified’ Objects
When Nikolai Kardashev looked into the question of where to find advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, he argued that the obvious starting point would be in the vicinity of extreme astrophysics.... By Paul Gilster.
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Incredible discovery reveals the truth behind an ancient Chinese legend
A deluge on the Yellow River 4,000 years ago led to a feat of Bronze Age hydro-engineering. By Annalee Newitz.
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Rare Maya Burial Temple Discovered in Belize
Excavations at Xunantunich have uncovered the remains of a body and hieroglyphics that tell the story of the snake-head dynasty. By Jason Daley.
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In Search of the Lost Empire of the Maya
The ambitious Snake kings used force and diplomacy to create the most powerful alliance in their culture’s history. By Erik Vance.
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The Wari's grisly end—the fall of a South American empire
The first Andean empire conquered modern-day Peru—then broke up 1,000 years ago. By Lizzie Wade.
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Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins
Analyzing how stories change in the retelling down through the generations sheds light on the history of human migration going as far back as the Paleolithic period. By Julien d’Huy.
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‘Game-changing’ study suggests first Polynesians voyaged all the way from East Asia
Ancient genomes trace first settlement of the remote Pacific to Asian farmers. By Ann Gibbons.
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Is the house of history built on foundations of sand?
Graham Hancock
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Western contact with China began long before Marco Polo, experts say
China and the West were in contact more than 1,500 years before European explorer Marco Polo arrived in China, new finds suggest..
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Secret Mayan tombs lend rare insight into rule of mysterious ‘snake kings’
Jade-inlaid teeth and inscribed tibia unearthed in Holmul ruins of Guatemala hint at influence and power of Mayan dynasty known for snakehead emblem. By Alan Yuhas.
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Our Friendly Visitors
A new book examines foreign observations of American democracy. By Daniel J. Mahoney.
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Evidence of first chief indicates Pacific islanders invented a new society on city they built of coral and basalt
New dating on the stone buildings of Nan Madol suggests the ancient coral reef capital in the Pacific Ocean was the earliest among the islands to be ruled by a single chief. By Margaret Allen.
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