History & Archaeology

King James II’s frigate discovered

Divers measuring the cannon of HMS Gloucester. © University of East Anglia 340 years ago, the future English King James II almost died in...

Europe’s largest carnivorous dinosaur discovered

The two-legged predatory dinosaur with a striking crocodile-like head lived about 125 million years ago and must have been at least ten meters...

Mayan corn god sculpture discovered

Newly discovered Mayan corn god sculpture © Proyecto Arqueológico Palenque/ INAH During excavations in the palace of the Mayan city of Palenque, archaeologists discovered for...

Mysterious Bronze Age City revealed

Aerial view of the 3400 year old ruins of Mitanni city. © Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen/ KAO Exciting finds in the wake of...

Prehistoric monster shark may be extinct due to white sharks

The two apex predators occupied similar places in the food chain. And the mighty and much larger megalodon ultimately lost out. Scientists are...

Ancient settlement sites discovered in Amazonia

Buildings of the Casarabe culture in Cotoca. © Prümers et al./ Nature, CC by 4.0 Archaeologists have found eleven previously unknown settlements of the...

Breathing reveals that the Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded

One of the oldest questions in paleontology has finally been answered. For decades scientists debated a pressing question: were dinosaurs warm-blooded, like birds, or...

Where did Herod’s alabaster come from?

Herod's bathtub found at Herodium © Amos Frumkin/ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem King Herod, notorious from biblical texts, not only initiated numerous magnificent building...

Winged goddesses revealed

View of some of the vulture goddesses on the central ceiling area, behind them the northern transom with inscriptions. © Ahmed Amin, Ministry...

Preserving meat: A comparison of old and new methods

© Adobe Stock, Mateusz, #265306473 There are foods that naturally have a very long shelf life. However, meat spoils comparatively quickly and therefore it...

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