Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
by Durga Edna Bonhomme’s A History of the World in Six Plagues is no passive chronology of pandemics—it is an excoriating treatise on the intersections of disease, colonialism, and the necropolitical calculus
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that modern humans descend from the interbreeding of two now-extinct species around 300,000 years ago. This discovery
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On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in January 1961, “47 percent of the political officers serving in United States embassies were CAS”—intelligence agents working under diplomatic cover known as
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In a historic move towards government transparency, President Donald J. Trump has ordered the full release of previously classified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The declassification also
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The grandson of Italy’s last king, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, has launched a campaign to bring back the remains of King Umberto II and his wife, Queen Marie-José, for reburial in the historic
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In a controversial move reflecting India’s ongoing historical and cultural debates, members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have demanded the demolition of the tomb of Mughal emperor
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The deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his partner, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, have led to movie clips of “The French Connection” movie being shared across social media. Hackman, who starred in
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by Satchi Deepa Mandlik’s Dynasties of Devotion is a work that does not merely present temples as places of worship, but as testaments to an India that thrived on artistic ambition, imperial
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The late 19th century saw economists, mainly German and Austrian, create a mythology of money’s origins that is still repeated in today’s textbooks. Money is said to have originated as just another
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Scientists are pushing the boundaries of genetic technology in an effort to resurrect traits from extinct species. The latest breakthrough? A group of “woolly mice” engineered with mammoth-like genetic traits, bringing researchers
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by Paul Michael Mandelbaum’s The Titans of the Twentieth Century purports to be an incisive exploration of eight men who “made history and the history they made.” The author, with an almost
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A controversial new claim by New York Times bestselling author Richard Poe suggests that the United Kingdom played a pivotal role in provoking World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution to further
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A recent report by MIT Technology Review highlights the growing debate among archaeologists about whether to continue excavating historical sites or wait until more advanced, less destructive technologies are developed. The discussion
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Archaeologists and forensic researchers have made a remarkable discovery in the ruins of Herculaneum: a human brain that was transformed into glass due to the extreme heat of the Mount Vesuvius eruption
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In a rare television appearance, former cavalry officer James Hewitt shared his thoughts on what the late Princess Diana would think about the ongoing feud between her sons, Prince William and Prince
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