Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.
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The Chinese state is attempting to build a new ‘spirit’ of heroism and sacrifice.
Several royal deaths were attributed to tennis in the 16th century.
Victorian Londoners consumed 12 million berries a day over the summer.
Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.
Museum exhibits only tell part of what happened in the past. Visitors need to consider what is being included – and what is being left out.
Claims that dismantling public statues and renaming roads and schools somehow erases Canadian history profoundly misunderstand how history works.
Vera C. Rubin’s research into stars in galaxies led to the modern understanding of dark matter.
When historians and engineers work together, they can bring a version of the past back to life.
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is changing contemporary Ghanaian art.
Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.
Despite funding cuts, political scapegoating and internal tensions, thousands of volunteers came together in the 1980s to provide care to a stigmatized community.
Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.
New genetic research has traced the paternal line of Poland’s first royal dynasty, challenging long-held national traditions about the origins of the Piasts.
Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history. George Orwell − who wrote, ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“ − would recognize that impulse.
In the 19th century, astronomers could see Mars through telescopes, but not clearly. Some used their imaginations to fill in what the blurry images couldn’t convey.
Kris Jenner’s ‘new’ face sparked myriad headlines about how she can look so good at 69. It’s the latest iteration of our obsession with people who appear ageless.
Living with a river rather than fighting it was how medieval people were able to survive
Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.
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Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
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Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
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IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
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Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University