The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

The wildest of the Canary Islands, Lanzarote's barren volcanic landscape features lava tunnels 6km long. Yet wine grapes can ...

Underwater archaeologists found a Roman breakwater made from recycled architectural fragments off the coast of Bacoli in ...

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The unicorn is indeed the national animal of Scotland, per its official government designations. As such, we rate this claim ...

Egyptian blue, more than 5,000 years old, covered tombs, statues, and murals, its bright color a symbol of ancient artistry. But its actual nature how it was created, what it was that provided it with ...

Rome’s Pliny the Elder described emerald in his Natural History, published in the first century AD: “…nothing greens greener” was his verdict. He described the use of emerald by early lapidaries, who ...

Despite its ancient origins, this tiling trend is just as applicable today. In fact, there is something strikingly modern about the collage-like look of this style. As mosaic artist, Helen Miles, ...

The natural history of Pliny (Volume 2) by Pliny, the Elder Publication date 1855 Topics Natural History Publisher London : Henry G. Bohn Collection usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary ...

Topics Natural History Collection usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary; americana Contributor U.S. National Library of Medicine Language English Item Size 642.0M Translation of: ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.