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20 May 2024, 7:32 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Now, archaeologists have uncovered a crucial piece of the construction puzzle – a long-lost branch of the Nile River, buried beneath desert sands for millennia, that could finally explain how the ancient Egyptians transported massive stones (some of which weigh upwards of 10 tonnes) to build these monuments. [read post]
14 May 2024, 12:41 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Last summer’s blazing hot temperatures weren’t just the hottest of our lifetimes; they were the tops for two millennia, according to a study. [read post]
9 May 2024, 7:53 pm by Josh Blackman
These arguments have brought to the forefront an issue that has pervaded Judaism for millennia: there is no single Jewish religion. [read post]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) affirmed Italy’s right to recover a millennia-old bronze sculpture from a Malibu museum on Thursday in a case that weighed the importance of a nation’s cultural heritage against fundamental property rights. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 2:22 pm by Josh Blackman
In December I wrote: Regrettably, as soon as Israel was established, the millennia-long train of anti-semitism simply morphed into its latest manifestation: anti-Zionism. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by Molly Candon
Psychedelics have been used for millennia, but they have only recently hit the medical mainstream. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 5:57 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
”That we can empathise so strongly with a man who lived five millennia ago is a remarkably powerful link to our shared human past. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 7:54 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is the abstract: Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly causing disruptions to ecological communities upon which Natives have relied for millennia, raising existential threats not only to ecosystems but to Native communities. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 2:20 pm by Josh Blackman
This image appeals to the ancient blood libel that has pervaded anti-semitic propaganda for millennia. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
  Of course, the nature of the human good is a deep topic--one that that has been debated by philosophers, psychologists, economists, theologians, and others for millennia. [read post]
3 Mar 2024, 6:01 am
The water, steeping in a millennia’s-worth of minerals, was some five times saltier than the ocean and about 20 inches deep. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
In Nepal, Indigenous Peoples with disabilities have Indigenous values and knowledge of how to live sustainably and adapt to harsh geo-ecological conditions over millennia, as well as experiential knowledge of disability. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 12:00 pm by Howard Friedman
On October 7 Hamas terrorists unleashed pure, unadulterated evil on the people of Israel....In the aftermath of Hamas’s vicious massacre, we have witnessed an alarming rise of despicable antisemitism at home and abroad that has surfaced painful scars from millennia of hate and genocide of Jewish people. [read post]
26 Dec 2023, 8:20 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
After reigning over forests for millennia, the species went functionally extinct—a loss that a biologist once declared “the greatest ecological disaster in North America since the Ice Age. [read post]
10 Dec 2023, 5:16 pm by Josh Blackman
Regrettably, as soon as Israel was established, the millennia-long train of anti-semitism simply morphed into its latest manifestation: anti-Zionism. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 7:45 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Along the way, the book explores standouts from the British Library’s collection of historic manuscripts dating back to the 7th century and spanning millennia of international human effort and innovation in book form. [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 4:44 am by Roger Bate
The Arrival of New Medicines Lone inventors, groups of scientists, serial entrepreneurs and, more recently, large corporations have been introducing new medicines, medical devices, and other products to improve our lives for millennia. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 11:00 am by Douglas A. Berman
Here is its executive summary: Historically, cannabis has been used for medical purposes for millennia. [read post]