Early Neolithic people parboiled their bulgur wheat to make instant cereal. “In this form, the cereal grain can be stored throughout the year and consumed easily, even without boiling, by merely soaking in hot water,” said Soultana-Maria Valamoti of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Humans were able to light and control fire nearly 790,000 years ago, […]

Northern communities of Australian Aboriginies may have had contact with other peoples hundreds of years before the British arrived, according to unrecorded rock art ranging from 15,000 years old to 50 years old. “The Aboriginal culture across the top end of the Northern Territory was much more versatile and used to interacting with other people […]