When the James Webb Space Telescope began photographing galaxies from the universe's earliest chapters, astronomers ran into ...
On Tuesday, October 20, a team in southeastern Spain lifted a block of stone out of a wall where it had been sitting for ...
Remains of a right hand belonging to the Neanderthal individual from Abauntz, shown from different angles. Credit: Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA Six hand bones from Abauntz Cave in northern Spain are ...
A small village church just outside Lugo, in northwest Spain, has been described for decades as a plain medieval building. A new study argues that it is about 300 years older than that, and that it ...
Migdol Temple at Pella in Jordan from the Middle Bronze Age, destroyed in the Iron Age. Credit: Ben Churcher. Pella Project, University of Sydney / Wikimedia Commons Seven pottery cups from a communal ...
About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began to grow. A team from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia ...
Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had ever ...
When an electron meets a positron, both vanish. Their mass turns into energy and nothing is left of either particle. That is the main reason positrons are so hard to study. There is no jar to keep ...
About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began ...
On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.
About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its ...