Archaeologists Discovered the Pieces of a Fifth-Century Board Game. They Tell a Big Story.
The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with ...
Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...
Farewell, Ruritania: Saying goodbye to Eastern Europe’s exotic aura
The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...
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Ancient DNA Sheds Light on the Origins of Indo-European Languages
New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...
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Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
Scientists spell out Islamic scientific traditions in a new a volume dedicated to unlocking the secrets of oriental ...