Joanna Gillan

A hidden medieval Jewish cemetery, once believed to be lost, has been rediscovered beneath the Barbican Estates in London, close to the remnants of an ancient wall within the Thomas More Garden.

A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British Museum researchers to an

In a remarkable fusion of software technologies and human imagination, we are now able to experience disparate worlds simultaneously.

Is there life beyond the stars? This is one of those questions that have existed for centuries, and intrigued societies and great thinkers from the dawn of civilization.

With the help of declassified images collected by United States spy satellites, a team of researchers from Durham University in the United Kingdom

Chinese researchers have digitally recreated the facial contours and features of a man from the Hongshan culture, during the Neolithic period, roughly 5,000-years-old.

Who are the Nephilim and what do they represent? Are they biblical giants? What does the term literally translate to, and why does the brief mention

The legendary Arslan Kaya monument (i.e., lion rock), features a heavily damaged inscription that has been difficult to decipher for ages, and is 2,600 years old.

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Madeleine Burgess /The Conversation Ahead of the reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, eight of the cathedral’s church bells were renovated and blessed before their re-installation in the north tower.