Meanwhile, just outside the wall, a ring of red cedar posts, dubbed “Woodhenge,” likely served as a sort of solar calendar. The city, a natural trade hub due to its position near the confluence of the Mississippi, Illinois and Missouri rivers, seemingly thrived in the 1000s and 1100s...
Sumer was settled around 4500 BCE in the fertile area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (what is now Iraq and Kuwait). The Sumerians made great advances in agriculture, the development of industries, and trade, but it seems far from what we consider 'civilized' today. Nonetheless, ...
The dusty red planet has fascinated us for centuries. Even as we learn more, its mysteries keep us in suspense.
This theory is perhaps the most well known. The Fermi Paradox says that even if there were advanced civilizations out there, they may look at us the same way that we look at ants. Say there is an ant hill in the middle of a forest and right next to that ant hill we are building a...