Two thousand years before the Inca Empire extended its dominion over the Andes, a much less known yet culturally influential ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, ...

The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens housed a colossal statue made of gold and ivory, carved by the famous sculptor Phidias in 438 BC. Its view from the entrance of the temple must have ...

Three elbow keys from the Cave of the Letters assemblage discovered by the Yadin expedition Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority Credit: John Williams / Israel Museum Jerusalem In the 1960s, ...

Drone surveyed the orthomosaic map of the Sconsor foreshore, showing the circular stone alignment (C1) within the Sconser foreshore. Credit: K. Hardy et al. A group of archaeologists and scientists, ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question ...

Dr. Alex Baker on 'The Chemistry of Star Wars' at the Royal Institution in 2024. Credit: Royal Institution Since its premiere in 1977, Star Wars has captivated generations with its mix of adventure, ...

The Chapel of Corpus Christi in the Toledo Cathedral is also known as the Mozarabic Chapel because Cardinal Cisneros decreed in 1504 that it be used to celebrate worship according to the eponymous ...

An international team of scientists from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States has managed to decipher the internal processes of the Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, known as the zombie volcano ...

On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would continue the following month with Sputnik II, which also carried the first ...

Three of the lion-head discs retrieved from Tomb T6. Credit: A. Peretz A team of archaeologists made a singular discovery at the ancient site of Khirbat Ibreika, in southern Israel: four bronze discs ...