Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

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The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution asks the important question.. what if the French Revolution was fought with giant robots?

Maybe the Democrats will wake up and go back to the days of Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill and Dick Gephardt. I didn’t think ...

Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts, including an iconic Inuit kayak, and supporting documentation to the Canadian Conference of ...

In 1913, Joseph “Joe” Knowles, a Boston newspaper artist and self-proclaimed outdoorsman, walked naked into the forests of ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

A new exhibition in Mexico City explores how the sacred myth that marked the site of the ancient Mexica — or Azetc — capital ...

One of the most captivating aspects of a Nile cruise is the itinerary. Deluxe Nile Cruises typically operate between Luxor and Aswan, two cities that together host an extraordinary concentration of ...