Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...
A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...
A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...
ArtNet News reports that officials at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii have concluded that a looted fragment of a mural ...
According to a La Brujula Verde report, well-preserved dog remains and a polished bone dagger have been recovered from ...
Live Science reports that traces of sixteenth-century gallows and 10 burial pits have been uncovered in southeastern France ...
According to a Live Science report, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Bulgarian […] ...
By looking at mother-infant experiences together, we can observe the long-lasting impact urbanization has on the health of ...
Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...
MONTREAL, CANADA— Phys.org reports that Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal of the University of Montreal conducted a review of Maya artwork from the Classic period (A.D. 250–900) and Postclassic period (ca. A.D.
Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...
The presence of a wall measuring nearly 400 feet long and small structures constructed some 7,000 years ago have been confirmed off the coast of western France, AFP reports. In 2017, geologist Yves ...