In the arid highlands of the Huaytará region, a solitary stone building erected by the Inca Empire in the mid-15th century ...

Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...

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A team of researchers from Yale University has scientifically identified the contents of a valuable Egyptian alabaster vessel inscribed with the name of the Persian king Xerxes I, who died in 465 BCE.

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Blanche-Nef, the ship that sank with the heir to the English throne and more than 300 nobles, is the title of an article we ...

The conventional historical narrative, the one that for decades has portrayed Tlaxcalteca society of the Late Postclassic as ...

For centuries, the composite bow has been a symbol of military and technological power in the ancient civilizations of ...

In a cold library, a 12th-century scribe carefully works on a parchment. His task is to reproduce an older text, a document ...

A team of researchers from Yale University has scientifically identified the contents of a valuable Egyptian alabaster vessel ...

The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for ...

Sometimes, the international political context makes it uncomfortable for a monarch to pass through a foreign country. Other ...