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An Ethiopian Volcano Has Erupted with an Explosion of Ash, Awakening After 12,000 Years of Quiet
Learn about the recent eruption of Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia that was previously dormant for nearly 12,000 years.
Kept within the centers of learning in Timbuktu, their existence was threatened by Islamic insurgents that spread through ...
Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...
Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...
It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...
About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...
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She married her brother, then he died. The monument to her grief was a Wonder of the Ancient World
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.
Many suggest that Africans joined the Trojan War under Memnon’s leadership, but what evidence truly backs this claim?
On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...
Ancient wetland earthworks in Bolivia reveal sustainable Indigenous land management that continues to inspire modern conservation. In Bolivia’s hidden tectonic lakes, researchers uncovered vast ...
Ancient lentils preserved in volcanic silos link modern Canarian crops to 2,000-year-old North African origins. Lentils ...
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