The Daily Mail reports that a recent book is claiming to make the case for identifying the historical figure behind the legends of Robin Hood. Historian David Baldwin’s book, Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked, was published in 2010 and ….
French author Jules Verne certainly did his best to imagine the future but he also wrote plenty of “contemporary” stories that today would be considered either science fiction or fantasy simply because they went beyond the mundane qualities of the ….
UPDATE: The Yucca Mountain Project was defunded by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nevada) in 2010. The project was terminated in the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, passed by Congress on April 14, 2011. The United States ….
Historians often have to work with only bits and pieces of information when reconstructing the past. Astronomers do much the same thing. The farther out into the universe they look, the farther back into the past they probe. But the ….
New research about the ancient fortress at Tel Qudadi near Tel Aviv suggests that the fortress — once believed to have been built by King Solomon — was probably an Assyrian outpost supported by a local population. The fortress may ….
In 2008 researchers published data that indicated that skeletal remains found in Talheim in southwest Germany indicate that young women were kept prisoner after the men of a clan or tribe were executed around 5,000 BCE. The clash seems to ….
The Web is filled with pseudo-scientific gibberish that attempts to prove all manner of ideas and claims but there are also some pretty interesting amateur sites that have attempted to assemble known facts in a fairly articulate and unbiased way. ….
Two new research studies shed some insight into settlement patterns across prehistoric Europe and ultimately other continents. In Clash of Cultures — Neolithic Europe vs. Middle Eastern innovators I wrote: In some cases the hunter-gatherers must have clashed with the ….