A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma ...

A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical Heritage (INAPH) at the University of Alicante will publicly present on May 16 the results of their ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

A study reveals that to this day, only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor has been visually recorded. Although it covers two-thirds of the planet’s surface, the deep seafloor remains an unknown ...

The lowest temperature ever recorded in an inhabited area is -71.2º Celsius (-96,2ºF). Not only that, it’s also the lowest temperature ever measured in the Northern Hemisphere, although it is about 20 ...

Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of being the only one in its country. It is, of course, the Vatican Pharmacy, ...

One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...

The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic civilization that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd ...

Sulla's entry into Rome in an illustration from 1900. Credit: Internet Archive Book Images / Wikimedia Commons Two of the most conspicuous victims of Marius’ reprisals, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ...

Chimpanzees Asanti and Akuna vocalising. A new study shows that wild chimpanzees use a variety of call combinations to expand messaging. Credit: Liran Samuni / Taï Chimpanzee Project A recent study ...