Archaeologists from Tulane University and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

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

Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ...

A recent study has revealed that wild chimpanzees use vocal combinations with remarkable complexity, analogous to fundamental ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...

The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...

Representation of the chamber or gallery where the tubes were discovered. This private chamber was of restricted access, suggesting that the consumption of psychedelics was a special ritual reserved ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...