Archaeologists note that around the year 2,900 B.C., a “darkened Sun” would’ve been only one of the worries of these ancient people—DNA suggests that plague was also running rampant ...
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient object ...
One particular find — a bright blue chunk — caught their attention and turned out to be a rare ancient material. Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus Aurea, also known as the ...
The neo-Pharaonic building was constructed in the 1930's by famous Egyptian architect Mostafa Fahmy. In 1936, former prime minister and beloved revolutionary Saad Zaghloul was interred there nine ...
“It was important to have a human-to-human meeting,” Hanan Shaheen told the Chicago Sun-Times after her White House visit. Wadee became a symbol for anti-Palestinian violence when, according ...
He and his colleagues say that burying the carvings could have been an attempt to get the sun back or a celebration after the skies did finally clear. How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts ...
causing a Neolithic Danish community to offer sun stones in the hope of bringing back the light and saving their crops. Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of ...
the sun was central to the agricultural societies of Neolithic Northern Europe. These early farmers depended on sunlight for crop growth, making any prolonged solar obscurity terrifying. The sunstones ...
The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.
Her acting career took off with a leading role in Goodbye, Columbus which earned the star a Golden Globe for Best Actress. But she became a household name when she landed the role as Jenny ...
A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...
A dog found gagged and injured nearly a decade ago in South Carolina and who became a symbol of hope for rescue animals has died.