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How Many People Lived in the Angkor Empire? By Sarah Klassen and Alison Kyra Carter This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years…
Discovering Africa’s Oldest Burial By Alison Crowther and Patrick Faulkner This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Africa is often referred to as the cradle of humankind—the birthplace of our species, Homo sapiens. There is evidence of the development of early symbolic behaviors, such as pigment use…
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Charles Allen was born in Kanpur in 1940, and remained associated with India through his efforts to bring to light the various efforts taken by British officers like…
Archaeologists have identified traces of this ancient funerary rite as the Near East’s earliest evidence of cremation….
Geologic evidence supports historic accounts of the great “Kamikaze” of 1274 and 1281…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaurs-parents-new-egg-discovery-180975361/
Five hundred years ago, the English and French kings proclaimed their friendship—and military might—at the Field of Cloth of Gold https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/five-hundred-years-ago-henry-viii-and-francis-i-spent-19-million-18-day-party-180975116/
Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga… https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/best-board-games-ancient-world-180974094/
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