"Early-life malnutrition has been consistently associated with reduced brain volume and cognitive impairments, highlighting the critical importance of adequate energy and nutrient intake during ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

From politics to the Oscars, the #MeToo movement is spotlighting the nature of women’s relationship to power. Why are traditional positions of power still closed to so many? How do women work within ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Bauer (author of the four-volume The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child) guides readers on a fast-paced yet thorough tour of the ancient worlds of Sumer, Egypt, India, China, Greece, ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

Channel 5 has boarded as the first broadcast partner for the Keshet International and SandStone Global co-production Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The three-part history docuseries, presented by ...

The Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) invites applications for a full-time, substantiation-track post at the rank of assistant professor in the field of Ancient World ...

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Long before Settlers of Catan, Scrabble and ...