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A Spectacular Fresco Depicting a Thiasos or Procession of Dionysus Found in Pompeii
More than a century after the discovery of the famous Villa of the Mysteries, a new large-scale pictorial work has emerged ...
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Asclepiades of Bithynia, the Greek physician who was the first to believe in the existence of “microbes”
Cito tuto jucunde, a phrase that can be translated as “Quickly, safely, and pleasantly,” was the motto of one of the fathers ...
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Scientists Explain What Happened 14 Million Years Ago When the Solar System Passed Through the Orion Star-Forming Region
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has revealed that the Solar System passed through the ...
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A Cosmic Light Show at the Heart of the Milky Way: Scientists Discover the Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy Emits Constant Flares
This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (A-star). It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas. The black ...
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The Battle of Thermopylae in Which No Greek Soldier Participated: April 1941
Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...
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Byzantine Ascetic Monk Buried with Chains in Jerusalem Discovered to Be a Woman
The Byzantine “monk” buried in chains near Jerusalem was a woman. Credit: Matan Chocron / Israel Antiquities Authority An archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has shaken the foundations of ...
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An Exceptional Tartessian Sanctuary That Rewrites the History of the Inland Peninsula, Discovered in Spain
Aerial view of the archaeological site of La Bienvenida-Sisapo, with the Tartessian sanctuary near the castle mound of La Bienvenida. Credit: Mar Zarzalejos Prieto, Germán Esteban Borrajo / Consejería ...
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Scientists Discover the Largest Superstructure in the Nearby Universe, So Massive It Extends from 416 to 826 Million Light-Years Away
This snapshot from the Euclid space telescope shows about a thousand galaxies that form a single galaxy cluster, the Perseus Cluster. Many such clusters together form the largest structures in the ...
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80,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Discovered in Arabia Puzzle Archaeologists, as No Human Remains Are Found
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Knut Bretzke from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, has identified the oldest evidence to date of the systematic production of stone blades on the ...
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Severed Heads Found in Iberian Iron Age Sites in Catalonia Belonged to Prisoners of War or Defeated Enemies
Through isotopic analysis of severed heads found in the Iberian Iron Age settlements of Puig Castellar (Barcelona) and Ullastret (Girona), a group of researchers has revealed unprecedented details ...
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Remains of First Roman Basilica of Londinium Demolished in 100 AD, Found Beneath Gracechurch Street
A recent archaeological discovery in the heart of the City of London has astonished experts. In the basement of the commercial building located at 85 Gracechurch Street, right next to the historic ...
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The Ear of Neanderthals Reveals That Their Enigmatic Origin Was Not Caused by a Drastic Loss of Genetic Diversity
Recreation of the appearance in life of a Neanderthal man at the Natural History Museum in London. Credit: Michael Brace / Flickr A recent study on the anatomy of the inner ear of Neanderthals and ...