If you are facing battle, it is generally a good thing if the soldiers on your side are alert, or maybe confident, and even downright reckless in their disregard for danger. The better your fighters, the more likely you will win the day, and nothing disarms a fighter lack a panic. This is well known
Something new in the field of paleoanthropology: researchers have discovered a new species of human. Well, not human exactly but a close relative of Homo sapiens, which has been named Homo juluensis (Homo “bighead” and you can all stop sniggering). Neither is it really something new. The species being a part of that mysterious mish-mash
Lake Turkana in Kenya feels like an alien world. The lake, brackish and saline, is surrounded by desert and what life survives in the area does so in defiance of its inhospitable surroundings. But this was not always the case, and the very inhospitable nature of the lake may have preserved something amazing about the
Archaeologists in Arizona have uncovered a bronze cannon which dates back to the Coronado Expedition of the early 16th century. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510 -1554), a Spanish nobleman and conquistador, led a sizeable expedition from what is now Mexico across the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. The cannon, according to the study
A new study has analyzed a large whole genome dataset of the Armenian population. The study, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, has caught out at least one ancient historian. The Armenians, an ancient peoples of West Asia, can be dated back thousands of years. Darius the Great of Persia spoke of them
In the west of Turkey, in the highlands of ancient Phrygia stands a enigmatic tower of volcanic rock. Known as Arslan Kaya, it has intrigued scientists for generations. More than two and a half millennia old, the 15-meter-tall monument is nothing short of a work of art. Carved into the surface of “Lion Rock” as