West Asian food – Mesopotamia and Iran
Sumerians sipping beer through straws (ca. 2500 BC) The people of West Asia traditionally divided themselves into two groups who had very different eating and drinking habits. These two groups thought [...]
Sumerians sipping beer through straws (ca. 2500 BC) The people of West Asia traditionally divided themselves into two groups who had very different eating and drinking habits. These two groups thought [...]
A cloudy glass of water You can see for yourself that blue light scatters more than red light. This is the same way that John Tyndall showed why the sky was [...]
(Bosch, the Ship of Fools) - medieval disabilities Were a lot of people disabled in the past? In the ancient and medieval worlds, many more people were physically and mentally [...]
Bell beakers (ca. 2000 BC) The Yamnaya invade Europe About 3000 BC, a new wave of Central Asian people migrated west into northern Europe; these were the Indo-Europeans. We also [...]
History of chocolate: an Aztec man serving a cup of cacao Chocolate and Europeans When Spanish invaders came to the court of the Aztec ruler Montezuma in 1519, Montezuma naturally [...]
History of cheese: There are lots of different kinds of cheese. How to preserve milk? If you don't have a refrigerator, there's no way to keep milk from going bad [...]
Dried sour yogurt balls in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (thanks to Jeff and Becca Zanatta) Central Asian meat and dairy The nomads who lived in Central Asia, like the Scythians, the Mongols and [...]
A girl making yogurt in Mongolia: how to make yogurt! Yogurt and bacteria To see some prokaryotes in action, you can make your own yogurt. Yogurt is what happens to [...]
Rat from New Zealand - Evolution of mammals When did the first mammals evolve? About 200 million years ago, when all the land on Earth was stuck together in one [...]