Did Black People Own Slaves?
By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some [...]
Understanding al Qaeda’s Revival in Iraq
By Eric M. Tope.
As the New Year gets underway, the most recent spell of violence in Iraq shows little sign of abating. A steady barrage of assassinations and bombings has claimed nearly 6,000 lives since April 2013, [...]
The Day The Lights Went Out – Europe 100 Years after the Outbreak of World War I
By Oliver Krumme.
On the 28th of June 1914, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Prince Franz Ferdinand, and his wife have been assassinated in Sarajevo. Their murderer, Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip, was most likely unaware of the [...]
Do Wars Really Defend America’s Freedom?
By Lawrence S. Wittner.
U.S. politicians and pundits are fond of saying that America’s wars have defended America’s freedom. But the historical record doesn’t bear out this contention. In fact, over the past [...]
Tehran And Washington: The Story Of A Breakup
By Catherine Shakdam.
Historically, Tehran and Washington have spent more time as allies than nemeses, and the restoration of a positive relationship between the two countries could be the key to stability and healing in the Middle [...]
Memories of Berlin, Before and After the Wall
By Josep Colomer.
On the 25th anniversary of the fall
1985
The metro from West Berlin crosses without stopping several underground stations in the eastern part, all bricked up and each with an East German soldier stationed in [...]
Egyptian Mummification Started 1500 Years Earlier Than Thought
By Alton Parrish.
Researchers from the Universities of York, Macquarie and Oxford have discovered new evidence to suggest that the origins of mummification started in ancient Egypt 1,500 years earlier than previously thought.
An [...]
The Pagoda – Nepal’s export par excellence
By Subodh Rana.
His parents already knew of his proclivity to create wonderful images of Hindu and Buddhist deities in clay and wood from a small age. When he could get hold of charcoal from his mother’s kitchen, he would [...]
Global power transition: Twilight of Pax Americana and the rise of China
By Jon Kofas.
The world power structure has been undergoing a fairly rapid transition in the last four decades. From an American-dominated world economic system to an Asian-dominated one, the transition [...]
40,000 year old Indonesian cave painting stuns historians
By Griffin University.
Cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are at least 40 thousand years old, according to a study published this week in the scientific journal Nature.
This is compatible in age with the [...]
This Is What Mythologizing History Looks Like in 2014
By Alan Singer.
In an Ancestory.com advertisement called “Remarkable Path,” Henry Miller (1849-1918) is shown taking a photograph of Abraham Lincoln speaking at Gettysburg. It is a nice scene in an engaging ad. Unfortunately [...]
13 World Mysteries Without Explanation
Chinese mosaic lines
These strange lines are found at coordinates: 40°27’28.56″N, 93°23’34.42″E. There isn’t much information available on these strange, yet beautiful mosaic lines carved in the desert of the Gansu Sheng province [...]
A City 6,000 Feet Under The Sea
By Alton Parrish.
The Swedish research ship “Albatross” had just returned from a peaceful reconnaissance in the South Atlantic.
“This may be about the most astonishing thing you ever heard, A City 6,000 [...]
Putin for 15 Years and Counting
By Sean Guillory.
On August 9, 1999, fifteen years ago, Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin, an unknown, ex-KGB man to become Prime Minister of Russia. Then, no one would have guessed that Putin would still be with us today, [...]
2000 year old mystery of the binding media in China’s polychrome terracotta army solved
By Hongtao Yan.
Even as he conquered rival kingdoms to create the first united Chinese empire in 221 B.C., China’s First Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered the building of a glorious underground palace complex, mirroring his imperial [...]
The sati wives of Jung Bahadur, Maharajah of Nepal
By Subodh Rana.
If only the Tudor King Henry VIII of England were as lucky as Jung Bahadur Rana, he would have had male heirs aplenty and he would not have had to behead a few of his queens in the hope of his next one presenting [...]
Europe of Sarajevo: 100 years later
By Anis Bey.
Click here to read report: Europe of Sarajevo: 100 years later
Understanding Stonehenge
By Kakha Margiani.
There are spread lots of false understanding about Stonehenge and other megalithic and strange Aryan constructions including pyramids and pyramidal complexes all around the Earth.
Central [...]
What is Bitcoin? Will digital currency replace paper money?
By Penn State University.
In 1729, when he was 23 years old, Benjamin Franklin authored a pamphlet titled “A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.” The revolutionary idea he advocated? [...]
The Destruction of Pompeii
By Michael Anderson.
Most of us know the story of the destruction of Pompeii in 79 A.D, when Mount Vesuvius produced the most dangerous of its many eruptions. The result of this particular explosion was the burying of the towns of [...]