Earthquake in Turkey A History Forged by Disaster. Last year two massive quakes tore through Turkey, killing tens of thousands and leaving many more homeless. The relentless tectonic forces that have rocked the region for millennia nurtured myths of Poseidon and tales of Troy and may explain why Noah had to build an ark

When did humans begin to create art, practice rituals, develop sophisticated hunting strategies? Anthropologists have long associated the advent of the "modern" mind with the Cro-Magnons, who arrived in Europe some 40,000 years ago, but recent evidence suggests that the transition may have happened thousands of years earlier