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CERN’s Collider Achieves Transmutation of Lead into Gold in an Experiment
For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to ...
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The Giants of Mont’e Prama, Iron Age sculptures found in Sardinia, could represent people with acromegaly
The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic ...
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British Isles tin enabled mass production of Bronze in Europe and the Mediterranean in the ancient world
A pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...
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The Ice Maiden of Altai: The Spectacular Discovery of the Tomb of a Scythian Female Shaman Frozen in Time
In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk culture created ...
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Maya Tattoo Tools Discovered for the First Time
Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...
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Secret Room with Tubes Revealing Ritual Use of Hallucinogens to Govern More than 2000 Years Ago Found in Peru
Representation of the chamber or gallery where the tubes were discovered. This private chamber was of restricted access, suggesting that the consumption of psychedelics was a special ritual reserved ...
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The Mystery of the Parthenon’s Interior Lighting System in Antiquity Revealed
The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...
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How Robert Guiscard Used an Impostor Monk to Try to Conquer the Byzantine Empire with a Norman Army
In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...
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Scientists Create a “Black Hole Bomb” in the Laboratory for the First Time
A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of black holes. The experiment ...
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The Triton Baths in Southeastern Rome Were Converted into a Christian Church During Late Antiquity, Discovery Reveals
In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D. within the monumental complex of the Villa di Sette Bassi, discovered ...
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A Porticoed Road and a Bronze Panther Found in Augusta Raurica, the Best-Preserved Roman City North of the Alps
As part of a major construction project, the Cantonal Archaeology of Aargau carried out a rescue excavation between early May 2024 and the end of March 2025. This significantly expanded the knowledge ...
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Closer to the Theory of Everything: A new theory unifies the fundamental forces and changes our understanding of the universe
The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Credit: Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki / ...