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Secret Messages of Pharaoh Ramesses II Discovered on the Obelisk in Paris’s Place de la Concorde
French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, a professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris, has discovered a series of hidden inscriptions on the obelisk ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds a Strange “Skull” Rock on Mars
This image from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument’s right eye, shows the ‘Skull Hill’ target, a dark-toned float rock. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Perseverance ...
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Scientists manage to stimulate eye cells to visualize “olo”, a color never seen before by humans
In a breakthrough that seems straight out of science fiction, a group of scientists has succeeded in getting the human eye to visualize a completely new color, beyond what it can naturally perceive.
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Tomb of Prince Useref Ra Discovered in Saqqara, Featuring the Largest False Door in Pink Granite Found to Date
A joint Egyptian archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Dr. Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage has revealed an exceptional discovery in the Saqqara necropolis: the ...
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Over 100 Horse Skeletons from a Roman Cavalry Unit from the 2nd Century A.D. Found in Stuttgart
More than 100 horses from a Roman cavalry unit found in Stuttgart. Credit: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart / ArchaeoBW Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument ...
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Emergence of a land bridge 20 million years ago allowed elephants and humans to cross into Asia, and turned the Sahara into a desert
A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time. Credit: Alisha Steinberger / The ...
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Rare Glass Ornaments from Egypt Found in Spanish Sites Predate Phoenician Colonization
A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the University of Alicante (UA) and the University of Augsburg (Germany) has discovered that glass ornaments reached the Iberian Peninsula from ...
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A Celtic Iron Age Necropolis Found in France Without Human Remains but With Complete Swords in Their Sheaths and Other Treasures
At the top of the archaeological site of Creuzier-le-Neuf, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a team from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) has uncovered an ...
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There is life on planet K2-18b: Strongest signs yet of biological activity detected outside the Solar System
A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has detected the chemical fingerprints of possible signs of life on a planet outside the solar system. Using data from the James Webb Space ...
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The Pope Who Bore the Name of a Roman God and Changed It Upon Election, Beginning a Tradition
The first pope to change his name did so because he was named after a pagan god. Credit: DALL-E / labrujulaverde.com Rome, year 533 AD. The Eternal City, once the capital of the Empire, now under ...
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Extreme droughts triggered the great barbarian invasion of Roman Britain in the mid-4th century AD
A study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that a series of extreme droughts between the years 364 and 366 AD may have been a determining factor in the so-called Great Barbarian ...
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Archaeologists Discover a Roman Castellum on the Banks of the Danube, the First Found in Austria
Aerial view of the excavation in the Hainburger Au (near Stopfenreuth) on one of the Danube tributaries in the Donauauen National Park Credit: H. Wraunek, Land NÖ For the first time, an archaeological ...