Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in ...
In a quiet corner of Hadrian’s Villa, wedged between the so-called Amphitheater and a low bench of volcanic tufa rock, sits a marble slab measuring roughly 40 by 35 centimeters (about 16 by 14 inches) ...
This is what the Denisovans may have looked like, reconstructed from the Harbin skull. Credit: Xijun Ni et al., 2021 A quarry cleanup in southwest China has turned up the first Denisovan arm bone ever ...
On the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, there is a Roman city called Pompeiopolis. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with the Pompeii buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD. This one takes its name from ...
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, ...
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 ...
Workers were preparing to build a block of flats in Ligornetto, a small town in the canton of Ticino, right on the border with Italy, when they hit the remains of a Roman factory built almost two ...
Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the walls of Kition Kathari, an archaeological site beneath the modern city of ...
In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For ...
On the slope below the cemetery of Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in Italy’s Le Marche region, recent heavy rains loosened the hillside enough to expose something no one was looking for: a rounded ceramic ...
While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic ...
Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the ...
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