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 ...
The brain goes through five distinct stages between birth and death, a new study shows. Scientists identified the average ages—9, 32, 66 and 83—when the pattern of connections inside our brains shift.