The marsh had defeated civilizations for millennia, from ancient tribes to medieval rulers. But 1930s engineers approached the problem with a military-style operation: excavators, pumps, new rivers, ...

To understand why Belarus isn’t part of Russia, you have to go back to the medieval world of the Kievan Rus and the later power struggles between Lithuania, Poland, and Muscovy. For centuries, Belarus ...

This is where the paradox emerges: the very cognitive abilities that allow humans to innovate, plan, and manipulate the ...

Creative Assembly has announced that its new Warcore engine will power the next-generation of Total War games, which are also ...

Medieval alchemists sought to transform lead into gold. Nvidia has industrialized the transformation of kilowatt-hours into ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

Deserts are often dismissed as too harsh, too barren, too empty to be worth exploring, and that might be the greatest ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

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