Genetic Evidence of Geographical Groups among Neanderthals

The Neanderthals are a well-distinguished Middle Pleistocene population which inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to ...

The Mayans built ball courts so they could play games

The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica. The...

The Mayans had many excellent medical practices

Health and medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex blend of mind, body, religion, ritual, and science. Important to all, medicine wa...

Golubac

Golubac Fortress is a medieval fortified town that is located 4 kilometers downstream of the modern-day village of Golubac, Serbia. The co...

THE HOLOCENE OPTIMUM

Between c. 7000 and 4000 B.C. the climate in Europe reached its optimal level (the Hypsithermal) in the present interglacial. It was not, ...

EARLY HOLOCENE WARMING

One of the lessons from the present plethora of research into climatic history is that change is not necessarily gradual. In the case of E...

Antonino Saliba 1582

The only known example of the Jollain/De Jode edition of Saliba’s map of the cosmos, integrating ancient Pagan and medieval Christian cosm...

No world ending in latest Mayan calendar find

Researchers say careful excavations have revealed the first examples of Mayan art on a house interior (Source: Tyrone Turner /National Geogr...

Climate change speeding up water cycle

The evidence comes from changing patterns of salinity in the oceans Anna Salleh ABC The greenhouse effect is accelerating the global water...

Quinatzin Map

Quinatzin Map, leaf 1 (top panel), ink and color on amatl, circa 1542. Quinatzin Map, leaf 2 (center panel), ink and color on amatl, circa 1...

Cambodian temple brought back to life

A temple known as Cambodia's second Angkor Wat is slowly returning to life, after being left to ruin for 800 years