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…
New research has identified a persistent problem that has hindered studies of the origins and patterns of human evolution. Specifically,…
A massive quarry dating back to the late Second Temple period has been uncovered in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim Hi-Tech Park,…
In 2022, a surprising discovery was made within the walls of an abandoned fortress in northeastern Mongolia, shedding new light…