In a time without telescopes, the appearance of a new star in the night sky was a disconcerting event full of meaning. Today, those same historical records, meticulously noted by chroniclers and poets ...
Archaeological excavations at the Torreparedones site (Córdoba, Spain) have yielded a singular and moving discovery: the fragments of an articulated terracotta doll from the Roman period, an ...
An international team of researchers has managed to unravel the best-kept secrets of the enigmatic bronze figurines of the ...
An international team of researchers has studied the diversity and evolution of prehistoric horses that inhabited Europe between 1.6 and 1.4 million years ago. The study, focused on fossils from three ...
A study based on the analysis of carbon isotopes in more than 1,500 archaeobotanical samples shows that ancient societies of the Fertile Crescent allocated vast resources to irrigating vineyards, ...
In a discovery of considerable significance, the archaeological mission called “Appia Antica 39” has unearthed three valuable mosaics from the 2nd–3rd centuries A.D. in an imperial-era necropolis ...
In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...
A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations that makes it possible to build a clock from any sequence of random events, ...
The necropolis of La Lentejuela, in the municipality of Teba (Málaga, Spain), has brought back to light, after more than five millennia of silence, one of the most monumental and best-preserved ...
War is the continuation of politics by other means,” declared the Prussian military officer Carl von Clausewitz in his theoretical treatise Vom Kriege (On War). He wrote it immediately after the ...
In 1992, the remains of a man who had been buried in Paris for 111 years were transferred to the Russian city of Vladivostok, ...
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