In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer ...
For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting ...
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 ...
The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be ...
The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp ...
More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily's Valley of the Temples was where the ...
For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world's political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch.
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 ...
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