Around 5,000 years ago, when writing was in its infancy and Egypt had just been united under a single king, the first ...
Physicists have been asking an awkward question for decades. If the universe is built from invisible fields, why has each one ...
In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled for ...
Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to light in 2026 is something else: wood carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers ...
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 ...
Colour-composite image of the Galactic Centre and Sagittarius B2 as seen by the ATLASGAL survey. Credit: ESO/APEX & MSX/IPAC/NASA / Wikimedia Commons A gas cloud some 26,000 light-years from Earth ...
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 ...
In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The floor ...
The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that until ...
More than 5,000 animal bones from the rubbish heaps of a neighborhood in Salamanca, Spain, show how a wealthy extended family ...
In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in ...
Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of ...