One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

It can be tricky to pinpoint the cause of pain at the base of your skull, the area behind your ears where your head and neck meet. Understanding the cause of the pain can help you determine how to ...

Adding to the pain were the stark labels written on the shrouds: “Skull without a lower jaw”, “Bone fragments”, “Rib cage”, or “Upper and lower limbs”. Instead of names and ages ...

The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...

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The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era. The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, is diving ...