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First solar eclipse ever recorded 'took place more than 3,000 years ago'
Prof Humphreys and co-author Graeme Waddington are not the first to suggest that the biblical text may refer to an eclipse. But earlier historians claimed it was impossible to investigate the possibility due to the laborious calculations required. Earlier researchers also only looked at total eclipses, failing to consider that the text may refer to an annular eclipse, in which the moon passes dire
Evidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought
Enlarge / These are the relatively recent remains of an ancient temple in the tropical forest of Cambodia. It's an idea that could transform our understanding of how humans went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to farmers and urbanites. Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplina
Iraq: Can Mosul survive ISIL?
Mosul can overcome the horrible reign of ISIL and rise again as an Iraqi centre of education and culture. Mosul was surrounded by several villages, all bustling with Iraq’s Kurds, Yazidis, Shabak, Christian Assyrians and Armenians, which led to Mosul’s unique cultural mix and diversity [Getty Images] As the military operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State (ISIL
Where Did Agriculture Begin? Oh Boy, It's Complicated
Sometime around 12,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors began trying their hand at farming. First, they grew wild varieties of crops like peas, lentils and barley and herded wild animals like goats and wild oxen. Centuries later, they switched to farming full time, breeding both animals and plants, creating new varieties and breeds. Eventually, they migrated outward, spreading farming to p
Tales of African-American History Found in DNA (Published 2016)
African American men, women and children, who took part in The Great Migration in Chicago in 1918.Credit...Chicago History Museum, via Getty Images The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African
Why ISIS is a lot more dangerous than it was a month ago
When ISIS wins more ground, it gains more than just territory. Every additional inch on the map produces an inflated sense of both the group’s own power and the credibility of its claim to be the presumptive leader of the world’s Sunni Muslims. The extremist group may hold mostly stretches of desert, but desert, after all, is what most of what the Middle East is. At this point any expansion summon
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