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How did civilization emerge from small groups of hunter-gatherers? Some archaeologists focus on cooperation as the vital ingredient – and find evidence for it in the form of feast-related artifacts.

A forgotten city thought to date back as far as the 10th century AD has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists in eastern Ethiopia.

The use of dried white sages is 2,000 year old. This fragrant smoke has long been a spiritual and meditation practice used to take away any negative energy from your life, any darkness or malady.

According to one report which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the weight of 7.6 billion humans on the planet Earth makes up only 0.01% of all its biomass. In comparison, according to the report, bacteria make up 13% of all biomass, plants make up for 83%, and all the other forms of life account for 5% of the total weight. According to the Guardian, despite it is such a small part of Earth, humanity has been steadily destroying everything else that is on the planet for the past few millennia. In fact, as the...

“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.” - Wilder Penfield Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning “to bore”) is perhaps the oldest form of neurosurgery. The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology, involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull, and it has been performed since prehistoric times. The oldest trepanned skull, found at a neolithic burial site of Ensisheim in France, is more than 7,000 years old, and trepanation was practised by...