Simon Sebag Montefiore is a best-selling historian, with books published in 48 languages. He is the author of the international best-seller “Jerusalem: The Biography,” (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014). Q: How challenging is it to find sources about Jerusalem that can…
An image shows part of the Virgin on the Rocks. The hidden baby Jesus is in the right side of this frame. The Leonardo da Vinci painting the “Virgin of the Rocks” was hiding another image beneath its surface: a…
Ancient Egyptian murder mystery solved, mysterious population of human ancestors uncovered, 3,000-year-old mummy’s voice resurrected.Murder Mystery Behind Peculiar Egyptian Mummy Solved After 2,600 Years Ulster MuseumTakabuti has fascinated researchers since her 1834 discovery due to her blackened face and stunningly-preserved…
Students are taken to a special army facility as a precaution against the possible coronavirus infection on their return from China, at Indira Gandhi International Airport, on Feb. 1, 2020 in New Delhi, India. The passengers were evacuated from Wuhan…
A satellite view of Aylesbury-Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England shows the site where the skeletons were found, at a farm near a graveyard (top center). Excavation for the construction of a retirement community in the rural U.K. recently unearthed 42…
Yamashita’s buried hoard of gold and other valuables, if it exists, is reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. Excavations by treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines, said to have been hidden by…
This skull and mandible, rumored to belong to Pliny the Elder, prompted new research to assess that claim. A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military…
Recently discovered dinosaur and small animal footprints date back 183 million years to periods of quite in between fiery, lava eruptions. This story begins with a dusty photo. In 2018, Emese Bordy, an associate professor of sedimentology at the University…
Inscriptions on religious artifacts could reveal the identities of Jewish people who donated the objects to the synagogue. A historic synagogue near Kraków, Poland, was mostly destroyed by Nazis during World War II, but a secret hoard of precious ritual…
Original position of the skeletal remains inside the submerged cave of Muknal. These remains date back to about 10,000 years ago and belonged to an adult male. The earliest humans in North America were far more diverse than previously realized,…
The remains of Takabuti, a woman who was murdered 2,600 years ago in Egypt. It took 2,600 years to crack the case, but Egyptologists have finally determined how a curly haired, elite woman from ancient Thebes met her untimely end. …
The same fundamental platform that allows Schrödinger’s cat to be both alive and dead, and also means two particles can “speak to each other” even across a galaxy’s distance, could help to explain perhaps the most mysterious phenomena: human behavior.…