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New evidence indicates that ~2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya

news.griffith.edu.au

Submitted by marketrent t3_10yc9jh on February 10, 2023 at 1:16 AM

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Tavern from c. 2700 BCE rediscovered in Iraq with food, bowls, and a contemporary clay-refrigerator inside

smithsonianmag.com

Submitted by MeatballDom t3_10xn9o9 on February 9, 2023 at 6:10 AM

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Neanderthals had a taste for a seafood delicacy that's still popular today: "Neanderthals living 90,000 years ago in a seafront cave, in what's now Portugal, regularly caught crabs, roasted them on coals and ate the cooked flesh, according to a new study."

cnn.com

Submitted by PhillipCrawfordJr t3_10wfqvm on February 7, 2023 at 10:49 PM

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New version of the Epic of Gilgamesh — the first to contain all known transcriptions of about 22,000 text fragments, circa 130 BC to date — will be made publicly accessible

lmu.de

Submitted by marketrent t3_10vcex7 on February 6, 2023 at 5:27 PM

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Opium War: The Conflict That Changed China Forever | The National Interest

nationalinterest.org

Submitted by Joke-Fast t3_10tkp7h on February 4, 2023 at 4:38 PM

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Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia

phys.org

Submitted by Olympus___Mons t3_10mc67h on January 27, 2023 at 4:34 AM

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Why was Marcus Aurelius loved by the people?

Submitted by Artistic-Memory-277 t3_10l6qgq on January 25, 2023 at 7:07 PM

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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes -- and kept it a secret for 50 years

cnn.com

Submitted by Eagle4523 t3_10hus3r on January 21, 2023 at 4:15 PM

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Intact 16 meter ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara

egyptindependent.com

Submitted by MeatballDom t3_10hh88f on January 21, 2023 at 3:12 AM

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‘If you had money, you had slaves’: how Ethiopia is in denial about injustices of the past

theguardian.com

Submitted by sedentary_position t3_10febzc on January 18, 2023 at 6:13 PM

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When Did Rape Become Considered a Criminal Act in Western Civilization?

Submitted by Keith502 t3_10e8n67 on January 17, 2023 at 10:05 AM

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The idea of ‘precolonial Africa’ is vacuous and wrong | When ‘precolonial’ is used for describing African ideas, processes, institutions and practices, through time, it misrepresents them.

aeon.co

Submitted by ArtOak t3_10b6itg on January 13, 2023 at 9:45 PM

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The lost medieval sword fighting tricks no one can decode - No one knows how medieval knights really fought.

bbc.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_104pkgr on January 6, 2023 at 9:08 AM

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DNA reveals large migration into Scandinavia during the Viking age

theconversation.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_104jssm on January 6, 2023 at 3:46 AM

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Did we get Egyptian mummification totally wrong? It might have nothing to do with preserving the body after death, experts say.

businessinsider.com

Submitted by Magister_Xehanort t3_10062um on December 31, 2022 at 11:05 PM

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On Christmas Day 1859, a single shipment of 24 English rabbits arrived in Australia, triggering a devastating biological invasion with effects still felt today

cam.ac.uk

Submitted by marketrent t3_zx3rf0 on December 28, 2022 at 7:45 AM

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How the Navy made a secret deal with the mafia to win WWII. — how Lucky Luciano and other mobsters helped secure New York's ports during World War II.

nypost.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_zw283b on December 27, 2022 at 12:58 AM

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Muslim Rule in Spain Was a Crucial Part of Europe’s History

jacobin.com

Submitted by madrid987 t3_zplvgg on December 19, 2022 at 8:13 AM

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Opening lead coffins found under the floor of Notre Dame

9news.com.au

Submitted by johnmrson t3_zlq3gh on December 14, 2022 at 12:48 PM

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Cats first bonded with people in ancient Mesopotamian farming societies, leading to worldwide feline migration with humans

independent.co.uk

Submitted by marketrent t3_zjs025 on December 12, 2022 at 8:01 AM

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A summary of Ilya Ivanov's "humanzee experiments"

Submitted by Leather_Focus_6535 t3_z72n0q on November 28, 2022 at 5:32 PM

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How likely was it (in the 19th century) for an ocean liner to simply disappear?

Submitted by Natural-Ad678 t3_z1zowl on November 22, 2022 at 5:39 PM

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Origins of the Black Death identified. Multidisciplinary team studied ancient plague genomes

mpg.de

Submitted by ArtOak t3_yydou9 on November 18, 2022 at 7:02 AM

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Myth: the burning of the library of Alexandria was "the most destructive fire in the history of human culture".

kiwihellenist.blogspot.com

Submitted by MeatballDom t3_ys5uv0 on November 11, 2022 at 9:29 AM

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Oldest known written sentence discovered on a head-lice comb: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”

theguardian.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_yqcits on November 9, 2022 at 8:15 AM

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