On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Researchers ...
On May 29, 1108, an Almoravid army crushed the forces of Alfonso VI of León and Castile outside the town of Uclés. Among the ...
Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex — one in New Mexico, one in Montana. Isolated prints, each capturing a single ...
An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the most widespread theories about the ...
An archaeologist mapped the spot in the 1800s and moved on. A century and a half later, a Spanish-Egyptian team finally dug there — and found a judge's tomb with its paint still on the walls. When the ...
A papyrus that had gone unexamined for decades in a Cairo archive has made it possible to demonstrate, for the first time with solid textual evidence, to what extent the Roman poet Lucretius copied a ...
Late Neolithic activity at Sha'ar Hagolan, in the central Jordan Valley. The Neolithic settlement was built on top of the redeposited upper sediments. Credit: Garfinkel et al. 2006 The research, ...
The mosaic discovered in Pompeiopolis. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism For centuries, Pompeiopolis served as the capital of Paphlagonia, the Roman province covering much of Anatolia’s ...
The moment of the extraction of the head. Credit: Proyecto Libisosa / Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de Castilla-La Mancha The face is gone. Not chipped or worn away by time, but struck — ...
Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Paul Valery University of Montpellier demonstrate that outer anchorage areas were decisive in maritime traffic in Antiquity, which forces a rewriting ...
Flag with the Cantabrian Labarum at the Torrelavega Town Hall. Credit: Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons However, when we add the adjective Cantabrian to the term labarum, the matter takes on another ...
Gravisca sits on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lazio, in what is today the Porto Clementino area near Tarquinia, roughly 7–10 ...