About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its ...
Most of us can rattle off Europe's great royal houses: the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Plantagenets, the Stuarts, the ...
Some medieval books can’t be read by anyone, and one of them has become almost a trademark of the genre: the Voynich manuscript, kept at Yale University and dated ...
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 ...
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 ...
Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance between the coast of Bømlo, in western Norway, and Hespriholmen, a small rocky ...
Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther ...
Until now, the biggest fruiting bodies known among the ascomycetes, the largest group of fungi (it includes morels and ...
A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state ...
Hagar, a village in Egypt's Gharbia province, was working on a plot of land in front of his house when he came across a block ...
The building, named Jandial D, turned up during excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission of Ca' Foscari University ...
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