The legend of Atlantis has captivated human imagination for centuries. The story, as first told by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato around 360 B.C., speaks of a utopian society, a land of immense wealth and technological prowess that eventually sank into the ocean, lost forever. …
The ancient Mayan civilization continues to fascinate archaeologists, historians, scientists, and enthusiasts of events anchored in ancestral times, offering a rich dowry of landmarks and relics; one of the most enigmatic of these is the tomb of the Red Queen. It is a surprising burial chamber …
Russian anthropologists succeeded in reconstructing the appearance of three Egyptian pharaohs: Amenhotep III, Ramses I and Merenptah. By the end of 2019, British Egyptologist Howard Jones sent to a specialized institute in Moscow X-ray photographs of three mummy heads from British Museum collection. Only one …
The appearance of Homo erectus, about 2 million years ago, marked a crucial turning point in the evolution of human-type hominids, who were our direct predecessors. What characterized the erectus is the relatively large brain volume, it averaging 930 cm3 and being exactly 50% larger than …
A pandemic is a disease that affects almost the entire population of a region or continent, usually in a short time. If we look back into history, humanity has faced several pandemics that, after killing tens of millions, have finally disappeared. How did history's worst pandemics …
