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Protecting youths online will be the defining internet policy battle of 2026. Last year, Australia began implementing the ...

Indeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the ...

The first writing system appeared roughly 5,000 years ago in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia—modern‑day Iraq. Using a reed stylus ...

On Monday this week President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed for a two-day official visit to the Republic of Türkiye. The stated ...

Paper money, which has its roots in the promissory notes of Carthage, China and the Roman empire, was first issued as official currency by China’s Song dynasty in the 11th century, with Europe’s first ...

What is it about the human physiology that leads us to use pillows, and does anyone know when we first came up with the idea?

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Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Human fascination with chance has buoyed the growth of online casinos over the centuries. From the ancient die roll in ...