Egypt was home to the first known scientist, Imhotep, a brilliant Black physician. Famous for designing King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the Egyptian polymath Imhotep (Greek: Imouthes, c.
Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.
I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...
Consider three big examples: the evidence for cosmic design in the fundamental laws and structure of the universe; the ...
A fragile, irreplaceable object of significance to the shared cultural history of all humanity was being kept in a hot, humid ...
Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han ...
In the early months of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. did something he rarely allowed himself to do -- he stepped away. He ...
A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...
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