A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

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Five thousand five hundred years ago, a small revolution began, but it would be generations before it changed the face of the ...

Geoffrey interviews author of book about how world progress from the 1470s through the second world war is due to people, ...

HOW WE INVENTED THE WORLD examines four inventions that define the modern world - cell phones, cars, planes, and skyscrapers. Each episode in this 4-part series reveals the fascinating stories and ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

Virtual reality has changed the world in more ways than one. The concept first emerged in science fiction, so how has it ...

In this installment of Icons of Whiskey, we honor Elijah Craig—preacher, pioneer, entrepreneur and the man many credit as the ...

While the world and its leaders seem to get crazier day by day, and more and more innocent civilians are dying in different parts of the world, it becomes obvious again that tourism can only survive ...

Imagine you're a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine's sweltering tunnels.