(The Conversation) — Once upon a time, in the ancient Near East, there was a beautiful queen ... Earlier scholars of those cuneiform texts concluded that the Book of Esther was retelling ...

In the Middle East, humans have found ways to survive ... different people and ideas in the midst of an ancient land. BBC Travel's In Pictures is a series that highlights stunning images from ...

Decades earlier, Halley, an avid reader of ancient texts, had rediscovered and popularized a helpful celestial cycle for thinking about eclipses and the position of the moon in the sky: 6,585 days, or ...

The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have shone a spotlight, as it were, on Nut's role as ... Apr. 2, 2024 — An international team of ...

A multidisciplinary research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has combined ...

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In ancient Rome, an hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer, it could be as long as 75 minutes – and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes. At first it just appeared to ...

Though nowhere near the magnitude of the West Coast ... but a byproduct of the East Coast’s unique geology of ancient fault lines and rock composition. “Earthquakes in this region are ...

A 3.8 magnitude aftershock hit 37 miles west of New York City near Gladstone ... "This is one of the largest earthquakes on the East Coast to occur in the last century." "It's been an unsettling ...