Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our ...

An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest prehistoric journey ever undertaken by humans, ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...

The lowest temperature ever recorded in an inhabited area is -71.2º Celsius (-96,2ºF). Not only that, it’s also the lowest temperature ever measured in the Northern Hemisphere, although it is about 20 ...

One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...

A study reveals that to this day, only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor has been visually recorded. Although it covers two-thirds of the planet’s surface, the deep seafloor remains an unknown ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic civilization that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd ...

Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of being the only one in its country. It is, of course, the Vatican Pharmacy, ...

Sulla's entry into Rome in an illustration from 1900. Credit: Internet Archive Book Images / Wikimedia Commons Two of the most conspicuous victims of Marius’ reprisals, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ...

In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk culture created ...

The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have been preserved in their entirety. For a long time, the original dating that ...