There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...
The discovery of clay cylinders in Syria could entirely reshape the history of alphabetic writing, suggesting it may date back 500 years earlier than previously believed. This new archaeological find ...
However, the tablets long predated the Bible, placing the flood story further back in history than originally thought. Smith’s discovery caused a sensation, not just for academics but also for ...
The stuff you scrape off burnt toast is made primarily of atoms of carbon. But what makes up a carbon atom—or any other atom? The first subatomic particle to be identified was the electron, in ...
Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in ... to show how the understanding of numerous animals discovered in the early 19th century was ...
The discovery means that the 12th-century church ... Helen Nicholson, emerita professor of medieval history at Cardiff University, said: “A cross alone is not enough to show that a tomb was ...