David Musgrove reports on new research that casts light on the appearance of the comet in the 11th century, and its depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry ...

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Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

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More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Around seven times larger than the White House, Uzbekistan’s Center for Islamic Civilization is a monument of epic ...

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The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...

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