Hoard co-edited and wrote the introduction to “Kansas Archaeology,” a newly released collection of essays on the state’s prehistoric history. It’s long overdue. “The last collection like ...

In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. Walking to work in Anyama, local security guard Basile ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars ...

Poland’s earliest comic works, so reading this should make you smirk… But it wasn’t all fun and games, for the youthful years of the ‘funnies’, as they used to be known, coincided with the grim times ...

In deep regional Queensland, a retired commercial photographer is finding new life in macrophotography, focusing on ancient ...

THE German Minister of the Interior, Dr. Frick, has issued a circular (under official reference number III 3120/22.6) containing “guiding ideas”(Leitgedanken) for historical instruction in all ...

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