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Benedict IX, the Youngest Pope in History, Held the Papacy Three Times and Sold the Position to Get Married
It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...
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Evidence of the Use of a Polybolos, the Mythical Greek Repeating Weapon, at Pompeii in 89 BCE Discovered
A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the ...
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Scientists Discover That Some Plants Can “Hear” and Even Respond to Their Pollinators by Emitting Sounds
Although the relationship between plants and pollinators has been studied for decades, not much attention has been paid to ...
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North African ancestry was already present in the Iberian Peninsula in the 4th century, long before the Islamic conquest of 711
A joint study by researchers from the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom), the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at the ...
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Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus
Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...
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The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several generations
The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...
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Dark matter, the enigmatic force that shapes the universe, is born from particles that condense like steam into water
A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...