British scholars have suggested that fragments of the world’s oldest known Koran, which were discovered last month, may predate the…
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New study claims gerbils, not rats, responsible for bringing plague to Europe
For hundreds of years, the arrival of the bubonic plague in Europe in the mid-14th century has been blamed on…
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It’s a detective story with a century-old crime: The forgery of a supposed “missing link” in human evolution that went…
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Montserrat: a modern-day Pompeii in the Caribbean
For first-time visitors to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, some of the local vocabulary evokes Geology 101. Words like “pyroclastic…
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Richard III DNA test sparks controversy
King Richard III has been dead for more than 500 years, but his bones continue to ignite fresh controversy. The…
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