The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.
The workers began digging near a hospital in Birkirkara in September to install new water lines. As they dug, the team ...
Researchers uncovered a tiny house called the "House of Phaedra" during excavation work in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy ...
Does Herodotus' description of the inhabitants of ancient Palestine support the Bible's account of the origin of the ...
He spread his arms as if circumscribing the entire Roman world. Modern concrete ... a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr.
Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod ... art are still in use around the world today. The muses may hold a pen in one ...
Researchers are unlocking the ancient secrets of the world's most diverse marine habitat. Could their discoveries help us save our oceans? In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London ...
Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from ... In his work titled Natural History, he wrote: We taint the rivers and ...
Of the 193 countries in the world, Great Britain has conducted military campaigns of one sort or another in 171 of them. In fact, the UK has invaded more countries than other nation in history. It has ...
The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia ... B.C.E. when Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians – one of the world’s first major civilizations. According to a Facebook ...
An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when ... of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. Deep beneath our planet, two gargantuan, continent-size blobs ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries on Wednesday, including 12 halls that ...