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Written more than 2000 years ago, Cicero’s ‘On Old Age’ debunks stereotypes that persist today
such as the philosophers Plato and Pythagoras and the generals Scipio Africanus and Fabius Maximus, who fought against Hannibal in the Second Punic War. This is a far cry from the world of the ...
Wall Street Journal29d
‘Hannibal and Scipio’ Review: Carthage Versus Rome
The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.
Auburn Citizen6d
‘Everybody needs everybody’: Cayuga County farmers meet for coffee, conversation
Feb 3, 2025 Feb 3, 2025 Updated 2 mins ago 0 SCIPIO — Cayuga County farmers have been coming together at Dugan’s Country Grill to grow something different: their community. The only ...
Al Jazeera English28d
Remembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...
Nature4d
Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...
Nature4d
The Taung child: Celebrating 100 years
We celebrate the centenary of Nature’s announcement of the discovery of the Taung child, Australopithecus africanus, a discovery that confirmed Africa as humanity’s cradle and revolutionised ...
Reuters24d
Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual gets incorporated into tissue ...
Science News23d
Early human ancestors didn’t regularly eat meat
africanus individuals. Locked in the matrix of tooth enamel are tiny bits of nitrogen-bearing organic material, which reveal secrets about ancient diets, since the ratio of two forms of nitrogen ...
Business Line21d
Early ancestor diet revealed: Australopithecus relied on plants, not meat
The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual gets incorporated into tissue ...
News2423d
Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the ...