The idea of being visited by aliens is an appealing one, and it is not hard to see why. It would allow those who believe to feel that they are part of something much bigger, that there is a wider universe out there waiting, one which renders trivial all our domestic problems, from a planet
Police in Iran have broken up a gang of antiquities smugglers and recovered priceless artifacts from the time of Jesus. The treasures, which would have been disappeared into private collections, include two golden masks from the Elamite culture. Suspicions were first raised in Ganaveh Port in the province of Bushehr. Police tracked the gang to
We may have grown up thinking it was true, but Columbus was not the first European to make contact with North America when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Norse sailors had been crossing the Atlantic for centuries by that time, but new research suggests it may have been for even longer than thought.
In Panoria, in the province of Granada in Spain lies a rock necropolis that is truly ancient. At 5,600 years old, it was constructed well before the Egyptians got started with their pyramids. There are many questions still unanswered about the complex, the people who built it and their society, but now we have one
Something new has been discovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb. A hidden chamber set into the rock wall has been uncovered, seemingly entirely by accident. The burial chamber was found during cleaning work on the tomb, undertaken by a joint team from Sohag University and the Free University of Berlin, according to the Egyptian Ministry
There is no question that the fate of Rome, her empire, Europe and by extension the western world was changed by one man. In the space of a single human lifetime this man took the august but creaking Roman Republic and, driven by his own ambition as much as a love for his people, remade