How a 5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Brewery Redefines Civilization’s Origins
A 5,000-year-old brewery unearthed in Abydos is reshaping how historians think about the roots of industrial society. It wasn’t metal or war, but beer that fueled one of history’s first states.
Carved by Time: The Longmen Grottoes and the Eternal Question of What We Leave Behind
We carve things when we want them to last. Names into trees. Words into stone. Faces into mountains. There’s something ancient in that...
Iraq’s Lost Waterways: What Happened to the “Venice of the East”?
There was a time—not that long ago, in the sweep of history—when Iraq wasn’t just the birthplace of civilization. It was a living,...
From Hunters to Harvesters: Did Agriculture Trade Our Health for Convenience?
Processed foods, descendants of Neolithic crops, dominate modern diets. A 2021 Lancet study linked low dietary diversity to 11 million deaths per year.
When the USSR Planned to Dig a Canal with 250 Nuclear Bombs
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union pursued one of the most extreme engineering proposals in modern history: a plan to detonate 250 nuclear...
