A rather unusual petition from October 1716 is tucked away in the pope’s diocesan archives in the basilica of San…
In June 1947 Kenneth Arnold was flying a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington when nine bright objects began…
Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252…
For millennia everybody knew that human beings enjoy a privileged, unique position at the centre of the universe. That self-confidence…
Nine patollis—Mesoamerican game boards—were recently uncovered during excavation work for the Maya Train project in southeastern Mexico. The findings, believed…
Recent archaeological investigations at Mitla, a significant Zapotec site in Oaxaca, Mexico, have confirmed the existence of a vast network…
Some 2,000 war and merchant ships were sunk in the waters of Southeast Asia during the Second World War, constituting…
On the evening of 1 August 1952 General Dwight D.Eisenhower, the newly nominated Republican presidential nominee, met with his advisers…
The Franco-Ottoman alliance, formed in the 1530s between the king of France, François I, and the Turkish ruler of the…
Cara Wall-Scheffler/The Conversation Think about taking a walk: where you need to go, how fast you need to move to…