Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate, 400-year Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

Life in the Dark Ages was physically brutal and unforgiving. This video adds more reasons why most modern people wouldn’t survive even a day. Illness, injury, hunger, and exposure were constant ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African foragers, either living or ancient. The earliest evidence of burned human ...