In the remote highlands of Phrygia, Professor Mark Munn of Pennsylvania State University has deciphered part of the ...
The classic question, “What came first, the egg or the chicken?” has intrigued philosophers and scientists for centuries. A ...
Recent research conducted by the University of Florence, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous ...
The last human sacrifices carried out in Rome—beyond considering the ludi gladiatorii as an acceptable adaptation of the concept—took place in 216 BC. It was during a colossal catastrophe that shook ...
The joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission dedicated to the restoration of the Asasif necropolis in southern Egypt has made a monumental discovery during cleaning and excavation work in the ...
Letting go of the old to enter the new year is a metaphorical custom that is quite rooted in some corners of Italy, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. In the transalpine country, and more specifically in ...
Inhumation grave 26, shown in the original field photograph (left), with bones in anatomical articulation lying on their right side with flexed legs, and with colour added to the bones that were ...
The Triumph of Rome over Sicily, by Jacopo Ripanda (in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums, Rome). Credit: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / Wikimedia Commons The name Marcus Valerius ...
In the earliest moments of the universe, nearly 14 billion years ago, a phenomenon both fascinating and mysterious occurred. At the very moment of the Big Bang, an unknown force triggered a rapid ...
A team of Israeli and Australian researchers has presented a study that offers a possible scientific explanation for the biblical miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and other ...
Some figures carrying swords in Mycenaean art could be women, and have a ritual character. Crater from Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge / N. Antognelli Michel A ...