The story of the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, and the doom that awaited them in Canada’s frozen north, is among the most harrowing in history. The two ships, and the men who sailed in them, met with tragedy on the Franklin expedition trying to find a navigable Arctic route to the Pacific, and
A team of researchers working for fourteen years have managed to bring to life an entirely extinct tree, resurrecting a lost species that was originally mentioned in the Bible. The discovery, published in Communications Biology, could bring to life a tree from the time of Christ and Roman Judea. The seeds for this tree, a
There are many forgotten gods in the world. Though the great pantheons of history endure along the crumbling ruins of the empires that spawned them, there are many lesser deities who run the risk of being forgotten entirely. Many pantheons as rich and varied as those of Egypt, Greece or Rome have already been half
Roman emperors are perhaps remembered for their notoriety more than anything else. We remember Julius Caesar, after whom all the subsequent rulers took their name, as a brilliant commander (and because he wrote an awful lot of histories about himself) but he is most famous for his actions against the dying Roman Republic, for which
(The following article contains spoilers for the 2022 movie Prey) In 2022 the seventh movie in the Predator franchise was released. The movie, Prey, was in many ways similar to the 1987 original, although trading the steaming jungles of Central America for the Oklahoma plains and the wisecracking mercenaries for stoic Comanche was a surprising,
The Nazca geoglyphs are an enduring puzzle. We do not really understand why these ancient peoples in the south of what is now Peru traced enormous patterns on the barren plains of their homelands, nor even how they were supposed to be viewed. In fact, this is the core mystery at the heart of the