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The Earth’s Subsurface Holds an Clean Energy Source That Could Meet Human Energy Demand for 170,000 Years
In contrast to initiatives proposing energy solutions such as carbon storage or electrolysis powered by renewable ...
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, where ...
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Pregnant Viking Women Were Depicted with Weapons, Study Reveals
A team of researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester has conducted the first study on motherhood in the ...
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The Giants of Mont’e Prama, Iron Age sculptures found in Sardinia, could represent people with acromegaly
The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic civilization that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd ...
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The Ice Maiden of Altai: The Spectacular Discovery of the Tomb of a Scythian Female Shaman Frozen in Time
In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk culture created ...
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The Mystery of the “Ladies of Anavlochos”, the Broken Female Figurines Found on a Mountain in Crete
Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...
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Ordenstaat, the State Founded by the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic
It was not the first time an attempt had been made to subjugate them. Adalbert of Prague, Bolesław IV of Poland, the Kievan Rus, and Conrad I of Masovia had tried before, but without lasting success, ...
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Marcus Terentius Varro, the Roman scholar who conceived the existence of microorganisms sixteen centuries before their discovery
When looking for the origin of microbiology, it is typical to refer to the latter part of the 19th century, when it developed as a science due to researchers like Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Martinus ...
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Oldest Evidence of Sicily’s First Settlers, who Used the Island as a “Glacial Refuge”, Discovered
Entrance to the cave where the remains were found, on the northern slope of Mount San Fratello in Acquedolci, Messina. Credit: V. Forgia et al. In San Teodoro cave, north-eastern Sicily, a team of ...
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British Isles tin enabled mass production of Bronze in Europe and the Mediterranean in the ancient world
A pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...
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CERN’s Collider Achieves Transmutation of Lead into Gold in an Experiment
For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to advances in nuclear physics, this ancient aspiration has unexpectedly become a ...
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Teutonic Knights
In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of Saint Mary of Jerusalem) was founded in Jerusalem ...