Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be surprising if ancient ... life gave rise to various ...

Around 3am, after considerable tossing and turning, I rise and peer out at younger ... and their loss is less profound. The fall of an ancient tree is a sad occasion. It marks the death of a ...

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer ... After the Mongol invasion and the rise of ...

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

A team of researchers has demonstrated how large-scale resource extraction and redistribution across vast territories led to steep levels of income inequality on both counts — particularly in Han ...