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Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia ... and ...

Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.

Arguably the best example of this engineering marvel exists in modern-day Iran, where the technology was invented over 3,000 ...

Although dialogue has been a human idea since ancient ... civilizations will replace political and military confrontations, as part of man's destiny, was further complemented by the "End of ...

archaeology and history to explore the contribution of parasites in causing flourishing past civilizations to falter and decline. By using cutting edge methods, Mitchell presents the evidence for ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations ... In Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, originally ...

Ancient Greek myths have continuously inspired both classical and modern writers, leading them to produce brilliant classic ...

Due to age and conflict, not too many Northern Song books were lucky enough to survive, according to Chen Hongyan, head of the ancient book department at the NLC. Only three books in the collection of ...

Civilizations have recognized the power of cities to heat themselves up and cool themselves for centuries. City architects in ancient Rome ... I explore in my recent book, “Radical Adaptation ...

Ten years ago, archaeologist Eric Cline’s book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed ... to appeal to both a general ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location ... the episode from the biblical Book of Exodus—in which Moses makes water flow by striking ...