Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This rare genetic snapshot offers new insights into the diverse ancestry of early ...

A team of researchers has managed to extract and sequence DNA from fish remains found in an ancient Roman salting factory in ...

Forget Atlantis. Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria,” declared Douwe van Hinsbergen, professor of global tectonics and ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm Originally published: San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1987 Includes bibliographical references The Greek mysteries of the grain mother and daughter, and related mysteries -- The ...

Greek researchers are undertaking a reconstruction of the ancient Aegean coastline, with a primary focus on the islands of ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Syphilis diagnoses have reached an all-time high in Kirklees, as experts warn sexually transmitted infections remain a significant threat to sexual health. Figures from the UK Health Security Agency ...