Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), ...
Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The ...
Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The condition is called deformational plagiocephaly, from the Greek plagios ...
The newly discovered crocodile, Herugavialis cairensis, lived in the shallow marine environments that covered large parts of Egypt 50 million years ago. Credit: Adel Lee A skull pulled from the Sphinx ...
The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...
Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...
Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide ...
A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state ...
About 70 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a young Albertosaurus—a relative of T. rex—ended up as food for ...
The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the ...
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