A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

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The Lurie small-ball approach, making tiny steps and using the new San Francisco billionaire class as his ally, has split the ...

A renowned cartographer, the Paris-born Rekacewicz is well aware of his medium’s capacity to transform narratives for good and ill. His own work includes maps that illustrate the deaths of migrants as ...

Its mineral wealth includes ... kilometres), the United States (9.83 million square kilometres), and India (3.29 million ...

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