The Secret Lives of Medieval Executioners: Society’s Outcasts
Executioners upheld law and order, but their grim profession came with a heavy price.
Tag: history
People in Europe were consuming cocaine back in the 17th century
Life was simpler in the good old days. You worked the land, made your own house, and... dabbled in coca?
History books are wrong about British industrialization. It started way earlier
The British Industrial Revolution didn't begin in the 1760s, it had started way back in the 1600s but even historians ...
Who invented ice cream? A sweet journey through history
Ice cream went through a wild journey that started more than 2,500 years ago.
Who invented pizza? A trip down memory lane
Grab a slice!
Sugarcane, slaves, empire-toppling — the story of rum
This spirit had a very busy history.
Famous Egyptologist reports the discovery of a whole ancient settlement
Not everyday that you find a city.
The spicy history of how pumpkin spice got so popular
Your favorite autumn latte has quite the troubled history -- and no pumpkin.
New approach of dating pottery involves analyzing traces of old meals
It's always good to know how old a pot is.
Humans figured out how to start fires way sooner than expected
Ancient humans knew how to handle and make fire earlier than assumed.
Cities from 9,000 years ago had pretty much the same problems as those of today, study finds
"Many of the challenges we have today are the same ones they had in Çatalhöyük — only magnified," say the ...
The kill rate in Game of Thrones is actually quite realistic, a new study reveals
Don't blame George Martin or HBO for killing your favorite character -- blame reality!
Ancient trash suggests climate change helped drive the Byzantine Empire into the ground
No army can fight on an empty belly. Neither can an empire.
Divine punishment didn’t goad us into building civilization — it was the other way around
And then the gods said, "don't be a douchebag and we’re chill".
Globalization is an ancient practice, new research reveals
Cooperation is the key to success!
Ancient pottery portrays perilous path for agriculture under climate change
Don't scrub your pots too hard -- you're destroying precious climate evidence!
Supermassive black holes eventually stop star formation
Supermassive black holes slowly eject cold gas.
Book Review: ‘Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve’
A must-read book spanning time and science.
Watch the (2nd) biggest book in the world get digitized, all thanks to the British Library
It's not the size of the book that matters, it's how you digitize it.
Earliest Buddhist shrine uncovered right at the birthplace of Buddha
At one of the sites where it's possible that Buddha was born, archaeologists have identified the remains of an ancient ...
Rare and amazing photos of the Wright brothers and their historic flights [GALLERY]
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited as the first men who built an aircraft capable of manned controlled flight. The ...
Empires, institutions and religion arise from war
Peter Turchin, a population dynamicist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and his colleagues finished a study which concluded ...
First evidence of tobacco consumption in Mayan culture found
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient urn dated from the Mayan classical period, which after a thorough chemical analysis was found ...
