Recent archaeological research has uncovered evidence that humans were living near West Papua more than 55,000 years ago, offering new insights into early human migration into the Pacific. The discovery was made in Mololo Cave, located on Waigeo Island in the Raja Ampat archipelago. This significant find includes stone tools,…
For centuries, debate has raged over whether the Shroud of Turin is in fact the original burial shroud of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion about 2,000 years ago. While many believe it to be the real thing, others have dismissed it as a medieval fake. One of the most researched artefacts…
An elective trivia round Chicago. No more toddlin’. Now coddlin’. Comes now Bill O’Reilly’s 19th best seller “Confronting the Presidents.” Pub date Sept. 10. St. Martin’s Press. It’s delicious BS from G. Washington’s wooden teeth to whatever’s left of anything Joe Biden once had. Were they all great men? Please. Nice George Washington “was…
She walked out of her bedroom a few minutes after I arrived, the pallu of her sari draped, as always, across her right shoulder, Gujarati in style. Shireen* smiled at me as she slowly made her way to the couch, her short grey hair resting on her neck. For the…
But for all the ways Chicago represents Democratic ideals, critics say it has also exemplified the party’s failings and divisions. Looming large over the upcoming Democratic National Convention is the spectre of an earlier convention in Chicago that ended in unrest and violence. In 1968, the Democratic Party was facing…
EXPLAINER Conventions are where US political parties officially choose their presidential candidates. But how do they work? One by one, states across the United States hold primaries and caucuses in the lead-up to a presidential election, allowing voters to weigh in on their favourite major-party candidates. But those state-level votes…
Uganda’s high court will on Tuesday deliver judgement on the case of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), after more than 15 years of delay. Kwoyelo is being tried by the international crimes division of the court based in northern Gulu city, a…
Study shows ancestors of Homo floresiensis were even shorter and lived 700,000 years ago. Twenty years ago scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood about 3.5 feet (1.07 meters) tall on the Indonesian island of Flores. Now a new study suggests that the ancestors of the diminutive…
Stars of Egypt’s golden age of performing arts captured by leading photographers –from Umm Kulthum to Abdel Halim Hafez. Egypt Through the Lens is a four-part series that captures how photographers recorded the modern history of Egypt over 150 years – its kings, presidents, politics, conflicts and cinema. The final…
The earliest structures at the site date back to the first century AD, when it formed part of the Nabataean Kingdom. Jordan’s Umm al-Jimal village has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a move hailed by the country’s tourism and antiquities minister as a “great achievement”. The United Nations…
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