Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...
Athens was the cultural and intellectual center of ancient Greece, known for the first democracy, the great philosophers Socrates and Plato, the Parthenon and the monumental Phidias sculptures on the ...
These practices persisted into the Nordic Bronze Age, as evidenced by artifacts such as the famous Sun Chariot, further underscoring the enduring importance of the sun in regional belief systems.
As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...
An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in ... A patchwork of tribes with closely related languages and art styles – sometimes referred to as Celtic – lived in England before ...