Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, ...
Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), ...
Near Parabita, a town in the province of Lecce, in the heel of Italy's boot (the region of Apulia, also spelled Puglia), a limestone cave holds a piece of Ice Age history. Two small bone figurines ...
The newly discovered crocodile, Herugavialis cairensis, lived in the shallow marine environments that covered large parts of Egypt 50 million years ago. Credit: Adel Lee A skull pulled from the Sphinx ...
A new study argues that the Sun will shed its outer layers in about 4,600 lopsided bursts rather than a smooth breeze. Each burst would nudge the giant planets just enough to scramble their orbits, ...
The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...
A team from the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has identified the grave of an armed horseman, buried between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, inside ...
About 7.4 light-years from the Sun, a dim ball of gas about as wide as Jupiter drifts through space with no star to warm it. Jupiter is large enough to fit some 11 Earths side by side. (A light-year ...
Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...
Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog that shone as if they were new. Some assumed it was gold. Others had a more ...
Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide ...
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