It started with her childhood love of animals and all the books she read; and continued with meeting Mary & Dr. Louis Leaky and befriending the chimp at Gombe in Tanzania she named David Greybeard.

The Hopi are an aggregation of clans that came together at the “center-point” ( Tuuwanasavi) in northern Arizona during the course of their migrations. Because they are not a monolithic tribe, the ...

The plague theory emerged primarily from ancient texts rather than physical evidence. Hittite plague prayers from the late 14th century BC describe a devastating epidemic that allegedly originated ...

Now, Franck Goddio, the French underwater archaeologist who rediscovered Thonis-Heracleion, says the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) military ship was discovered in the major canal that flowed along the ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...

The Piraeus Lion is indeed an intriguing artefact, as it has a complex history that involves various peoples, from the ancient Greeks who carved it, to the Varangians who left their runic inscriptions ...

Fort Ross is located in Sonoma County, in the western US state of California. The fort was established by the Russian -American Company, a trading monopoly that established colonies in North America ...

Here we have evidence of Greeks on Anatolian soil, but can we find concrete proof for Homer’s Trojan War? Sadly, no. At least not yet. The destruction of Troy layer VIIa fits well into Homer’s ...

Maestriana's three-century existence has left frustratingly few traces, largely because modern Zalaszentgrót was built directly atop the Roman ruins. Centuries of urban development have either ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

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