Cool History News!
- Pharaoh of "Lost Dynasty" Died Brutal Death, Forensic Study Reveals
- Last-stand Neanderthals queried - We may need to look again at the idea that a late Neanderthal population existed in southern Spain as recently as 35,000 years ago, a study suggests.
- Richard III: Facial reconstruction shows king's features - A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III has revealed how the English king may have looked.
- Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king's - A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III.
- 400,000-Year-Old Hominin DNA Throws Everything We Know About Human Evolution Into Disarray - Researchers have found older bones in the "Pit of Bones" we learned about in the "Becoming Human" video!
- China's Great Wall Is Slowly Disappearing -- Discovery News (29 June 2015)
- Should We Thank God for Civilisation? -- New Scientist (26 March 2015)
- Mystery of Ancient Chinese Civilization's Disappearance Explained -- LiveScience (24 December 2014)
- How Farming Almost Destroyed Ancient Human Civilization -- Discovery News (18 November 2014)
- Population Boom, Droughts Contributed to Collapse of Ancient Assyrian Empire -- Phys.org (05 November 2014)
- Civilization Is Defined by 'the Others' -- ScienceDaily (03 October 2013)
- Rare Obsidian Mirrors Found in the Ancient Settlement of Çatalhöyük -- Hürriyet Daily News (13 October 2012)
- Building Angkor Wat -- Science (12 October 2012)
- Angkor Wat: History of Ancient Temple-- LiveScience (09 October 2012)
- Neolithic Discovery: Why Orkney Is the Centre of Ancient Britain -- Guardian (06 October 2012)
- The big dig: How a great archaeological discovery has drawn the people of Orkney -- Guardian (07 October 2012)
- Is this western Europe’s first city? -- Past Horizons (29 September 2012)
- Mohenjo Daro: Could This Ancient City Be Lost Forever? -- BBC News (26 June 2012)
- Hailstorms, Wacky Weather Chilled Ancient Baghdad -- LiveScience (26 fEbruary 2012)
- Khmer, Like Mayans, Fell Under the Weather -- Discovery News (05 January 2012)
- No Family Plots, Just Communal Burials In Ancient Settlement -- LiveScience (29 June 2011)
- How Cities Stress Us Out -- Discovery News (22 June 2011)
- Gazelles Caught in Ancient Syrian 'Killing Zones' -- BBCNews (19 April 2011)
- Mathematical Model Explains How Complex Societies Emerge, Collapse -- ScienceDaily (19 January 2011)
- Cretan Tools Point to 130,000-Year-Old Sea Travel -- MSNBC (03 January 2011)
- Greece: Birthplace of the Modern World? -- Guardian (07 November 2010)
- Early Date for Chinese Human Fossils -- BBC News (26 October 2010)
- City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests -- ScienceDaily (24 2010)
- Scientists Find Evidence Discrediting Theory Amazon Was Virtually Unlivable -- Washington Post (05 September 2010)
- Sting in the Tail of Farming Revolution [an interview with Dr. Spencer Wells, re Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (NY: Random House, 2010) -- BBC News (07 June 2010)
- Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ interview
- Etruscan House Reveals Ancient Domestic Life -- Discovery News (04 June 2010)
- Dawn of Urban Life Uncovered in Syria -- Discovery News (23 April 2010)
- Did Climate Influence Angkor's Collapse? Evidence Suggests Changing Environment Can Bring Down a Civilization -- Science Daily (30 March 2010)