Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in ...
Workers were preparing to build a block of flats in Ligornetto, a small town in the canton of Ticino, right on the border with Italy, when they hit the remains of a Roman factory built almost two ...
While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic ...
Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the ...
Some 40 miles (65 km) from Thessaloniki, a teenager who would go on to reshape the ancient world once sat listening to ...
There's a temperature nothing in the universe has ever touched. It's called absolute zero, equal to -273.15°C (-459.67°F), ...
The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outskirts of ...
Tharangambadi is a fishing village on India's Coromandel Coast, in the state of Tamil Nadu. Its name means "place of the ...
Under Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt between 1279 and 1213 BC and is remembered as one of its most powerful pharaohs, the kingdom kept a chain of garrisons along its western frontier, watching for raids ...
In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel ...
In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ice over ...
A team led by the National Museum of Denmark has worked out, for the first time, what people actually cooked in the pots of ...