For millennia, the story of the Minotaur—a hybrid creature of man and bull confined in a labyrinth beneath the Palace of Knossos—has been a cornerstone of Greek mythology. Now, new research by ...
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced an archaeological discovery of exceptional importance within the framework of the ambitious Taş Tepeler Project, an initiative that brings ...
I confess my fascination with family mottos. They seem to me a brilliant version of Gómez de la Serna’s greguerías adapted to ...
In September 2015, humanity heard the sound of the universe for the first time: gravitational waves predicted by Albert ...
Scientists find rare spores inside a fossil from the supercontinent Gondwana predating the dinosaurs
In a breakthrough that redefines half a century of paleobotanical knowledge, a team of Brazilian and German scientists has managed to extract and analyze rare plant spores preserved within the tissues ...
An international team of researchers has completed the most exhaustive geoarchaeological study ever conducted on the Temple of Karnak, shedding critical new light on its foundational age, its ...
For more than three decades, the scientific consensus on the composition of the universe has rested on a foundation both elegant and perplexing: that roughly 95% of all that exists is made up of ...
The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—a period that redefined the course of human civilization through the widespread use of an abundant and durable metal—finds one of its key explanatory ...
An archaeological excavation campaign carried out over five weeks in the town of Turda, in Transylvania (Romania), has culminated in the discovery of a Roman domus and, exceptionally, in the finding o ...
Why is there a tomb in the Cathedral of Trieste (Italy) bearing the inscription Carolus V. Hispaniarum Rex (“Charles V, King ...
One of the most curious pieces in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme —the most important of the four branches of the Museo Nazionale Romano— is a highly fragmented wall calendar from the 1st century BCE.
Between the western coast of the island of Paros and the northern tip of Antiparos, in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean ...
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