Tag: environmental history

Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment Leads to Nanotech Breakthrough

For ancient Egyptians blue was the color of rebirth. Today their chemical invention of artificial lapiz lazuli means new...

Floods, Climate Change and the Garden of Eden?

Are Jordan's snow and Israel's floods signs of climate change or are they simply flukes of weather?  People might...

Egypt’s Pyramid Builders Succumbed to Climate Change

Pollen and ash in Nile river delta sediment provides evidence of ancient climactic events including mega-droughts and wildfires which...

Plumbing the Mud in this Turkish Lake to Explain Climate Change

Lake Nar is in central Turkey, which was the epicenter of a disease that ravaged the Byzantine population 15...