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The Mystery of the “Ladies of Anavlochos”, the Broken Female Figurines Found on a Mountain in Crete
Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...
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Ordenstaat, the State Founded by the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic
It was not the first time an attempt had been made to subjugate them. Adalbert of Prague, Bolesław IV of Poland, the Kievan Rus, and Conrad I of Masovia had tried before, but without lasting success, ...
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Teutonic Knights
In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of Saint Mary of Jerusalem) was founded in Jerusalem ...
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Teutonic Order
In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of Saint Mary of Jerusalem) was founded in Jerusalem ...
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Complete Tool Kit of a pre-Roman Dacian Stonemason Discovered
The complete kit of a pre-Roman stonemason found in Romania. Credit: Aurora Pețan In a Romanian forest near the hill of Măgura Călanului, an unexpected discovery has revealed a unique set of iron ...
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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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Marcus Terentius Varro, the Roman scholar who conceived the existence of microorganisms sixteen centuries before their discovery
When looking for the origin of microbiology, it is typical to refer to the latter part of the 19th century, when it developed as a science due to researchers like Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Martinus ...
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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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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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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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Oldest Evidence of Sicily’s First Settlers, who Used the Island as a “Glacial Refuge”, Discovered
Entrance to the cave where the remains were found, on the northern slope of Mount San Fratello in Acquedolci, Messina. Credit: V. Forgia et al. In San Teodoro cave, north-eastern Sicily, a team of ...
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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 ...