1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1102+ words) Hunter-gatherers on one of the country's giant islands were sucking whole betel nuts as much as 25,000 years ago, a new study finds. It did bad things Who doesn't love to get stoned out of their gourd? Use of intoxicants isn't…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (156+ words) Opened days before this year's war with Iran, the Bible Lands Museum's journey through ancient battles asks a question Israel keeps failing to answer: when exactly is 'as soon as the war is over'? From Kadesh to Troy: What Ancient…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (805+ words) But between them was another revolt. It was large, bloody and disastrous, but few have heard of it, mostly because almost no one wrote down what happened. Beginning in 115 or 116 C.E., while the Roman emperor Trajan was campaigning in the east…...