Even thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant- and animal-based dyes. Chemists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have created new analytical methods to examine textiles from China and Peru that are several thousand years old. In the scientific journal Scientific Reports, they describe their new method, which can ...
Humans settled in southwestern Amazonia and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers. Jose Capriles, assistant professor of anthropology, said: “We have long been aware that complex societies emerged in Llanos de Moxos in southwestern Amazonia, Bolivia, around 2,500 years ago, but our new evidence suggests that humans ...
History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th-century Crusaders buried in a pit in Lebanon shows that there’s more to learn about who the Crusaders were and their ...
People over the millennia have reported having deeply moving religious experiences either spontaneously or while under the influence of psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms or the Amazonian brew ayahuasca. A portion of those experiences has been encounters with what the person regards as “God” or “ultimate reality.” In a survey of thousands of people ...
On April 11, British police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrested Julian Assange, who has been living there for the past seven years. The arrest paves the way for his extradition to the U.S. where Assange has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. Julian Assange and the Left Julian Assange, the ...
In medieval Europe, Muslims were commonly known as Moors. Since initially, most of the Moorish people coming into Europe were from Africa, the term came to be associated with African Muslims. But later on, the term Moors was used for Arabs. And during the European colonization of Asia, identities like Ceylon Moors, Indian Moors, etc. ...
The Dai people are one of China’s ethnic minorities. They are traditionally known as rice cultivators of the valleys — like the Shan, Lao, Ahom, and Thai people. Most of them live in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan Province, as well as in the Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai. History of the ...
When people think of Egyptian mummies, they typically think of the practice as a means of preserving human corpses. But the ancient Egyptians mummified not only human beings but also animals. Recently, a team of researchers uncovered an Egyptian tomb that housed several mummified mice, cats, falcons, and other creatures. Mummified animals The animal mummies date ...
Most children inherit both their postal code and their genetic code from their parents. But if genetic factors influence where families are able to live and children’s health and educational success, improving neighborhoods may not be enough. Latest research at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and the University of California at Irvine provides new insights into ...
Ko K’un-hua was born in the 18th year of Emperor Daoguang’s reign (Qing Dynasty) in 1838 in Anhui Province. During his teenage years, he became famous after passing the county examination to become a scholar. He became an aide to General Huang Kaibang and later served in the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. Later, Ko K’un-hua ...
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