The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
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.
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 ...
Physicists have been asking an awkward question for decades. If the universe is built from invisible fields, why has each one ...
Around 5,000 years ago, when writing was in its infancy and Egypt had just been united under a single king, the first ...
More than 5,000 animal bones from the rubbish heaps of a neighborhood in Salamanca, Spain, show how a wealthy extended family ...
In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in ...
Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of ...
Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collection of ...
Around 30 million years ago, a heavily built animal prowled the area that is now Vallbona de les Monges, in Lleida province ...
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