In 1174, Alfonso VIII of Castile ceded the castle of Zorita de los Canes in Guadalajara to the order so it could protect the ...
A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...
The fossilised remains of a magnificent dinosaur skull have been named in honour of Ozzy Osbourne. The Triceratops skull, ...
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Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand stencil with claws
Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are thought to be the oldest rock art in the world, pre-dating Neanderthal hand stencils in Spain by 1100 y ...
As part of her list of 50 unmissable treasures in the British Isles, Charlotte Mullins takes a look at some outstanding pieces of our heritage, located in Scotland.
Alphonse Mucha’s (1860-1939) world feels like a dream in perpetual bloom: maidens in draping robes linger in a golden glow, their coiling hair crowned with halos of flowers and looping vines. It’s the ...
Fifteen years ago, Jinan Behnan, PhD, was a graduate student at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, performing a routine dissection that would stay with her for more than a decade. Jinan Behnan, PhD ...
The skull contains bones that researchers have never seen before. A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will not be on ...
Human skull found in bushes near Coney Island boardwalk, as searches continue for more remains: cops
A human skull was found just in the bushes off the Coney Island boardwalk Tuesday evening, cops said. A homeless person spotted the remains just off the beach’s iconic Riegelmann Boardwalk between ...
The discovery of a peculiarly shaped skull by archaeologists has illuminated a previously unknown ritual deformation process. Archaeologists found a square-shaped skull indicating unique cranial ...
Construction workers at a Boston pier found what appeared to be a human skull encased in concrete last week — prompting a flurry of speculation that the victim of a mob hit from the likes of Whitey ...
A human skull found buried in concrete at a construction site in Boston was fake. The skull was found while workers were saw cutting along the pier at Black Falcon Cruise Ship Terminal on Thursday.
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