A new study shows that the city of Tall el-Hammam, in the Jordan Valley, was destroyed by a cosmic event… Read More
Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1240) may have been the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages. He was born and raised… Read More
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In the 1300s, the Italian scholar Petrarch came up with the term “dark ages” to describe European society between the… Read More
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