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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...
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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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Dark matter, the enigmatic force that shapes the universe, is born from particles that condense like steam into water
A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...
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Evidence of a Roman ritual with pig jaws found among remains of a legionary camp
A shallow pit in Area B, containing exclusively mandibles, maxillae and isolated pig teeth; based on a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) calculation, the assemblage represents at least 13 pigs.
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...
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The Vatican Pharmacy is the most visited in the world, with over two thousand customers a day
Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of being the only one in its country. It is, of course, the Vatican Pharmacy, ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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The Earth’s Subsurface Holds an Clean Energy Source That Could Meet Human Energy Demand for 170,000 Years
In contrast to initiatives proposing energy solutions such as carbon storage or electrolysis powered by renewable energies—both still not commercially competitive—a study by the Universities of Oxford ...
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Fragments of a large relief showing King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods, found in ancient Nineveh
The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...
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Obsidian Artifacts Found at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan Came from Enemy Territory
Aztec obsidian knives from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán Credit: JoaquinVilaG / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists from Tulane University and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute ...
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Porta Collina, Sulla’s Nocturnal Victory That Caused the Etruscans and Samnites to Cease Existing as Independent Peoples
Sulla's entry into Rome in an illustration from 1900. Credit: Internet Archive Book Images / Wikimedia Commons Two of the most conspicuous victims of Marius’ reprisals, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ...