Unlocking the mysteries of ancient ceramics is a bit complicated. Radiometric dating tells us the age of the clay, but when was it first shaped by a human? We can find out by blasting it with heat again!

Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to point at a fossil and know that it’s the first, say, plant? Well... yeah! But it's not that easy! Scientists are always making new discoveries that throw all our old assumptions into...

Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. So how do we distinguish what's actually...

From lemurs to lizards, ants to amphibians, sharks to chickens, hundreds of animals "play dead" as a survival tactic. But how and why do animals do this? Tierney Thys explains how this curious behavior, known as tonic immobility or TI...

This week, researches published a genetic analysis of the 11,500-year-old remains of a baby found in Alaska, near where the first Americans crossed the Bering land bridge. That analysis has answered some lingering questions about human...

The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2

When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs or meteorites. But behind that educational exterior, there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs...

From the ancient Egyptian game of Senet to the Aztec's Patolli, games have been played since the beginning of civilization. Today, your host Andre Meadows is going to take a look at a few of these games, including some that are actually...

Most history books will tell you that the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century CE, but this would've come as a surprise to the millions who lived in the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages. This Medieval Roman Empire, today called the...

Before empires and royalty, before pottery and writing, before metal tools and weapons – there was cheese. As early as 8000 BCE, Neolithic farmers began a legacy of cheesemaking almost as old as civilization. Today, the world produces...

Today on Crash Course Mythology we're starting in on creation stories. This week, we'll focus on the creation of the universe out of nothing, or Ex Nihlio creation. Basically, a god decides to make a universe out of nothing. We'll look...

They were the first giants of the cosmos, and now they're gone. The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence of ancient stars so massive and hot they defy belief. Join scientists as they piece together the clues from these...

From the deserts of Saudi Arabia to the depths of the North Sea, archaeologists are rewriting history. Near Riyadh, a stunning 8,000-year-old settlement with a stone temple and sophisticated irrigation systems reveals how ancient...

Things Other Countries Do Totally Differently!

Most schoolchildren can find Italy on a map—it’s the “boot” that’s kicking an island into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The island is, of course, Sicily, and the boot is Italy’s mainland. Without a doubt, Italy’s complex natural...

The Chinese dragon is one of the world’s most globally recognized monsters. Playing a major role throughout Chinese history, they were both creators and destroyers and controlled the elements. They've influenced everything from politics...

Elves have taken many forms across cultures and centuries. In early Norse and Germanic myths, they were powerful and mysterious beings connected to nature and magic. Some were seen as helpful spirits, while others were blamed for illness...

The legend of the werewolf—the idea of a person turning into a wolf—has terrified and fascinated people for centuries. Stories of werewolves date back to ancient Greece and the Middle Ages, often linked with fear of the unknown and the...

The Roman Kingdom falls and a Republic is born--Part 1 of history's greatest revolutions that created our modern civilization.

The Channeled Scablands of the Pacific Northwest hide an astonishing secret. Evidence of a massive flood that shaped the entire region lies just beneath its landscape. But it can only be seen with cutting edge LIDAR technology. Join Joe...

In the beginning, for hundreds of thousands of years, we didn't go to school. During the hunter gatherer days, when humans just gathered wild plants or chased wild animals, that's pretty much the main thing we did, and we learned it at a...

Howcast - Check out part 7 and become Death in this walkthrough of THQ's new release, Darksiders 2.

Hunting with golden eagles, known as kuchi, is a revered tradition in Kyrgyzstan. This ancient practice involves training eagles to catch prey like hares and foxes, requiring a strong bond between hunter and bird. The hunting season runs...

This Ancient World City completely vanished... #history