Skeletons reveal diet of medieval Muslims in Spain
Researchers analyzed the bones of 120 individuals, making this the largest isotopic study of a historical minority population in Spain.
english.elpais.com · 22 Oct
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Hawaiian settlers traveled from Easter Island 1000 years ago
Researchers found that Hawaiians share the closest genetic links to people from Easter Island, and those from Mangareva are the second closest, based on DNA analysis of over 1,000 Polynesians.
diepresse.com · 22 Oct
Spanish expedition reveals ancient Sahara art
The Tassili n'Ajjer massif contains more than 15,000 prehistoric paintings and engravings.
20minutos.es · 22 Oct
Acupuncture bridged Chinese and Soviet science
The researchers focused on a period of 12 years, from 1949 to 1961, to understand the scientific exchange between China and the Soviet Union.
phys.org · 23 Oct
Fingerprints reveal women and children built China’s Terracotta army
The team identified fingerprints from children under 15 on 22.3% of the terracotta warriors examined.
e.vnexpress.net · 22 Oct
Kazakhstan petroglyphs found using 1856 explorer’s sketches
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky made the sketches of the petroglyphs during a journey in 1856, 170 years before their rediscovery.
timesca.com · 20 Oct
Greenland yields first viking church discovery in 60 years
The discovered church dates to between 1100 and 1300, indicating a later period of construction than other previously found churches in Greenland.
sciencesetavenir.fr · 20 Oct
Barberini Mithraeum reopens with restored frescoes
The Barberini Mithraeum is almost 12 meters long and just over six meters wide, and features an exceptionally well-preserved late-antique fresco.
europe.repubblica.it · 20 Oct
Babylonian students appealed to gods with homework
Archaeologists discovered several thousand fragments of school offerings at one temple of Nabû in Babylon.
zmescience.com · 20 Oct
Ancient DNA confirms Easter Island link to Hawaii
Researchers analysed DNA from 317 native Hawaiians, 12 Rapa Nui, and eight Mangarevans as part of the study.
businessday.co.za · 20 Oct
Tea chest label reveals 19th century origins
The label’s Chinese characters represented the name of Smith, Archer & Co., a US firm importing tea during the 1860s and 1870s.
technologyreview.com · 20 Oct
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Artist Catharina van Hemessen signed her self-portrait
Catharina van Hemessen signed 14 of her 19 confirmed paintings, a practice uncommon for artists, especially women, in the 16th century.
smithsonianmag.com · 21 Oct
Alaska’s 13,800-year-old camp links to Russian sites
Researchers at Shég’ Xdaltth’i’ discovered projectile points matching those found only at two sites in Russia from the same 13,800-year-old period.
archaeology.org · 20 Oct
AI uncovers 461 years of British trade history
The project processed approximately 100,000 pages of handwritten records using AI, a task that would have taken years to complete manually.
bbc.co.uk · 20 Oct
Florida Museum displays ancient Cypriot art
The Ringling Museum’s Cypriot collection includes over 3,300 artifacts acquired from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1928.
biblicalarchaeology.org · 21 Oct
Fortress reveals ancient Egyptian control of trade route
The southern wall of the fortress stretches nearly 350 feet in length and is eight feet thick.
biblicalarchaeology.org · 21 Oct
Birds recall Chile wetland’s past to residents
Community members recognized 73% of the bird species recorded by the nature sanctuary, demonstrating extensive local knowledge of biodiversity.
phys.org · 20 Oct
Dresden exhibit displays Correggio’s influence across Europe
The exhibition features loans from museums in Italy, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, augmenting the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister’s permanent collection of Correggio’s work.
rainews.it · 21 Oct
Skeleton in Roman sarcophagus may identify medieval abbot
Carbon dating of the skeleton established a death date between A.D. 987 and 1052, confirming the reuse of the Roman sarcophagus in the late Saxon period.
phys.org · 20 Oct
Cairo’s Islamic design appeared in European cathedrals
The Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo, completed in the ninth century, featured pointed arches that later appeared in European cathedrals like Notre-Dame and Canterbury.
egyptianstreets.com · 21 Oct
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Filmmakers locate site of world’s first photograph
The filmmakers used nail polish to temporarily mark the exact location before the installation of the commemorative plaque.
smithsonianmag.com · 21 Oct
“Ocean of Peace” exhibition celebrates Pacific kinship through art
The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts had previously acquired only one work by a Micronesian artist before purchasing five pieces following the exhibition’s debut on Maui.
civilbeat.org · 20 Oct
Maui coral reveals link between land use and reef health
The coral core dates back to the 1700s, providing scientists with a 253-year record of environmental changes impacting the reef.
civilbeat.org · 21 Oct
Umayyad sculptures reveal royal life in Syrian desert
Archaeologists discovered a collection of over fifteen female sculptures at Qasr Hisham, a palace built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
aawsat.com · 20 Oct
Banh It Towers reflect nearly a millennium of Cham history
The Main Tower at Banh It Towers reaches a height of nearly 30 meters, showcasing the builders’ skills nearly a thousand years ago.
news.tuoitre.vn · 20 Oct
Ancient reliefs reveal life in Neolithic Turkey
The Sayburç relief is approximately 3.7 meters long and features five distinct figures carved into stone.
exame.com · 21 Oct
Rare Viking coin links king Olaf to Norway’s conversion
The Mørstad Hoard, discovered in April, now contains between 5,500 and 6,000 silver coins.
livescience.com · 21 Oct
Five new frog species discovered in Peruvian Amazon
Researchers identified five new frog species based on traits including snout shape, skin texture, size, and coloration pattern.
goodgoodgood.co · 20 Oct
Voynich manuscript pages may be out of order
The Voynich manuscript contains approximately 38,000 words written in an unknown script called “Voynichese.”
livescience.com · 20 Oct
Health programs reshape social networks in Honduras
The study tracked changes in social networks over three years, demonstrating the lasting impact of the health program on village connections.
phys.org · 22 Oct
Greenland ice sheet retreated 60 miles during warmer period
Scientists determined summer temperatures at Camp Century were 4.7 degrees Celsius warmer than today approximately 416,000 years ago.
phys.org · 20 Oct
New water lily species discovered through Instagram photo
Researchers found between 30 and 50 Victoria colombiana plants in the wild, classifying the species as at high risk of extinction.
nautil.us · 20 Oct
Cave sealed for 16,800 years preserves Stone Age home
Archaeologists recovered 4,614 items from the sealed cave dwelling, preserving them in their original positions.
lanacion.com.ar · 22 Oct
Hopper’s early oils revealed as copies
Hopper’s painting Old Ice Pond at Nyack was revealed to be a copy of Bruce Crane’s A Winter Sunset, published in 1890.
theartnewspaper.com · 20 Oct
Almaty exhibition highlights women’s heritage and memory
The exhibition features artists from 21 different countries, bringing together diverse perspectives on women’s heritage and ancestral knowledge.
astanatimes.com · 21 Oct
Ancient Chinese site yields oldest iron meteorite object
The artifact contains 7.41 percent nickel, a proportion that indicates it likely originated as a meteorite rather than being forged with terrestrial methods.
greenme.it · 22 Oct
Monet’s cataracts altered color perception
By age 80, over half of all Americans either have cataracts or have undergone surgery to remove them.
disabled-world.com · 21 Oct
Uzbekistan’s Islamic Center connects history across borders
The Islamic Civilization Center features four entrance portals each approximately 34 meters high, drawing on architectural traditions from different Uzbek regions.
tehrantimes.com · state media · 20 Oct
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Florence years highlighted in exhibition
The exhibition features works from over forty prestigious museums and collections worldwide, ranging from the Vatican Museums to Palazzo Madama in Turin.
rainews.it · 20 Oct
Novel genre’s role in Mexican cultural freedom to be analyzed
Gonzalo Celorio is a 2025 recipient of the Premio Cervantes de Literatura, a prestigious Spanish literary award.
aristeguinoticias.com · 21 Oct
Fossil pushes back human ancestor’s appearance by 200,000 years
Researchers analyzed 18 fossils from the Drimolen Main Quarry, including a new adult Homo erectus fossil, to revise the species’ first appearance to approximately 2 million years ago.
sciencealert.com · 22 Oct
Lost manuscript shows Schrödinger believed universe could be random
Schrödinger developed a strong commitment to indeterminism, the belief that events are not predetermined, even before quantum mechanics emerged, maintaining this view throughout his career.
sciencealert.com · 20 Oct
Scientists identify physical traits of Denisovans
Researchers identified a unique amino acid substitution in collagen peptides that definitively linked the Xujiayao fossils to Denisovans.
nautil.us · 22 Oct
Scientists reconstruct face of 315,000-year-old human
The reconstructed skull has a cranial capacity of 1,364 milliliters, closely matching an earlier estimate of 1,375 milliliters.
sciencealert.com · 21 Oct
Malta’s ancient stone tracks date to classical period
The study documented 2,628 distinct cart rut tracks across the Maltese archipelago, totaling approximately 31 miles (50 kilometers) in length.
gizmodo.com · 20 Oct
Celtic coin hoard shatters record in Germany
The hoard consists of eleven coins, which is the largest Celtic coin find from that period ever recorded in Thuringia.
foxnews.com · 21 Oct
Artist Gulnur Mukazhanova connects Kazakh heritage to global art
Mukazhanova began her ongoing Bosağa textile series in 2021, and presented a triptych at Frieze London 2026.
euronews.com · 21 Oct
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Archaeologists confirm Norse church find in Greenland
Researchers discovered a complete human skeleton buried with its head pointing east, confirming a Norse Christian burial dating to the Middle Ages.
smithsonianmag.com · 20 Oct
Egypt: man unearths colossal statue of Ramses II
The discovered statue features a 1.60-meter-tall head, adorned with the double crown symbolizing the pharaoh’s power.
futura-sciences.com · 22 Oct
Tajikistan shares heritage with Italy in Rome exhibition
The exhibition included a clay statue from Takht-i Sangin weighing 20 kilograms and standing 87 centimeters tall.
asiaplus.news · 22 Oct
IndiLat blends Indian and Latin American music
The song ‘Muévete’ included contributions from over 50 musicians and producers across three countries. India, Venezuela, and Chile.
thehindu.com · 22 Oct
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Eclipse story from ancient China likely a myth
Records of Chinese astronomical observations were “pretty exact” even as far back as the third or fourth century B.C.E.
smithsonianmag.com · 21 Oct
Egyptian homeowner’s find unearths royal statues
Archaeologists estimate one of the statues of Ramses II may have stood approximately 28 feet tall when complete.
thecooldown.com · 20 Oct
Lost Erasmus book on childrearing returns to Rotterdam
The rediscovered book, La civilité puerile, advises children to say "let daar goed op", pay attention, when someone sneezes.
nos.nl · 21 Oct
Roman road network was 59% larger than thought
Itiner-e’s digital atlas identified roughly 186,000 miles of Roman roads, a 59% increase over the 117,100 miles cataloged in the previous reference map.
bigthink.com · 22 Oct
Westminster Abbey sarcophagus reveals medieval abbot
Researchers found the remains dated to between 975 and 1025 AD, eliminating the Roman identified on the sarcophagus' inscription.
tanea.gr · 21 Oct
Newton’s gravity book sells for over $576,000
A first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia sold for US$576,000 in 2026, equivalent to approximately Rs 5.49 crore.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 22 Oct
Spain exhibits digital reconstruction of Renaissance court
The digital exhibition recreates the now-vanished Palace of Binche, which Mary of Hungary developed into a center for art and culture.
telesurenglish.net · state media · 21 Oct
Forgotten Island shares philippine culture through animation
Forgotten Island is the first American animated film to be set in the Philippines.
lequotidien.lu · 22 Oct
British traveler documents shifting dynamics in the Middle East and Africa
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt lived from 1840 to 1922 and served in the British diplomatic corps between 1858 and 1869.
aawsat.com · 21 Oct
New stag beetle species discovered in Greece after 180 years
The newly discovered Lucanus apollon stag beetle measures almost five centimeters in length.
derstandard.at · 22 Oct
New signs point to illness of Mona Lisa’s subject
Approximately 400,000 people in the United Kingdom currently live with alopecia areata.
skynewsarabia.com · state media · 22 Oct
Fingerprints reveal diverse workforce built China’s terracotta army
Researchers analyzed 79 fingerprints from terracotta warriors, estimating that 22.3% likely belonged to children under 15 years old.
tanea.gr · 21 Oct
Archaeological Survey of India resumes dig at Kashipur
Excavations at Kashipur have uncovered artifacts dating back to the Painted Grey Ware period, associated with civilizations of northern India and the Mahabharata era.
indianexpress.com · 22 Oct
London driver sells painting for £75,000 after £40 purchase
The painting, initially valued at £500 to £1,000, ultimately sold for £75,000 at auction, excluding the buyer's premium.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 21 Oct
Málaga museum’s “¡olé!” exhibition replays Spanish tropes
The exhibition featured over seventy artworks, but fewer than ten percent offered a critical perspective on Spanish stereotypes.
abc.es · 20 Oct
Cobras of Sri Lanka show distinct genetic history
Researchers analyzed 67 individual cobras using nine genetic markers to map the species’ evolutionary history.
es.mongabay.com · 21 Oct
Analysis dates van Gogh’s “Starry Night” to July 22
The Hyades star cluster, Venus, and a waning crescent moon would have been visible in the sky around dawn on July 22, 1889, matching the configuration in the painting.
popsci.com · 22 Oct
Archaeologists puzzled by bronze mechanism found in Bulgaria
The archaeological complex where the mechanism was found spans over 30 hectares and includes structures dating back to the 9th century BCE.
unian.ua · 20 Oct
Peru: elite child’s tomb reveals 32 ceramic objects
The tomb contained 32 ceramic objects, including vessels depicting scenes of sacrifice, battles, and deities.
tanea.gr · 21 Oct
Artisans from Mexico and Middle East collaborate on new works
The exhibition features a vessel inspired by Nasrid pottery, a style that influenced Mexican pottery after the Spanish conquest.
mexiconewsdaily.com · 20 Oct
Mosaic and Hellenistic layers unearthed in Turkey
Archaeologists have uncovered four successive Hellenistic period cultural layers at Kültepe-Kanesh, providing new insights into a historically understudied era of the settlement.
tanea.gr · 22 Oct
Roman genetic link found across Iberian Peninsula
Scientists identified siblings buried 725 kilometers apart, the largest distance ever recorded between closely related people in a study of this kind.
elpais.com · 21 Oct
Inca Empire began decades earlier than previously believed
Analyses of human remains at Machu Picchu indicate the complex was occupied as early as 1420, at least 20 years before traditional accounts place its establishment.
greenme.it · 20 Oct
Orlando adapts to graphic novel form
Virginia Woolf described Orlando as “the longest and most charming love letter in literature.”
theconversation.com · 21 Oct
New water lily species discovered with help from Instagram
The team discovered only two initial specimens of the new water lily, but a local Indigenous person helped them find five more, including one in bloom.
ilfattoquotidiano.it · 20 Oct
London abbey reveals identity in ancient sarcophagus
Radiocarbon dating showed the skeleton inside the Roman sarcophagus dated to the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century.
unian.ua · 21 Oct
Drones discover new rock art sites in Australia
The drone survey located three new rock art shelters in addition to confirming the locations of six already registered sites.
archaeology.org · 21 Oct
Heritage recedes with distance from water in Guizhou, China
The study integrated four environmental variables and a three-dimensional index to measure ICH recessiveness across 312 villages in Guizhou, China.
journals.plos.org · 22 Oct
Qwan Ki Do: Vietnamese martial art enters European universities
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in Romania has over 2,000 registered Qwan Ki Do practitioners across more than 40 clubs.
news.tuoitre.vn · 21 Oct
Swiss glaciers reveal relics as ice melts at rapid rate
Switzerland lost 5.5% of its total glacier volume this year, the second-biggest decline on record.
news.mongabay.com · 21 Oct
Uzbek-Tajik film celebrates shared literary history
Filmmakers completed approximately 70% of the filming for Shining Stars: Jami and Navoi in Uzbekistan and the remaining 30% in Tajikistan.
timesca.com · 20 Oct
Family brings traditional Vietnamese opera to France
The Minh Tơ - Thanh Tòng family has performed Câu thơ yên ngựa in France twice, 40 years apart.
tuoitre.vn · 20 Oct
AI separates skill from personal growth in art
Generative AI allows people to produce sophisticated works of art without undergoing the cognitive and emotional development previously required to realize them.
neurosciencenews.com · 20 Oct
Siberian cave reveals unknown ancient yak relative
Researchers extracted complete genetic sequences from as little as 20 bone fragments, some of which were only small splinters.
aawsat.com · 20 Oct
Lake sediments reveal 16,000 years of Balkan temperature shifts
Chironomids, tiny insects whose remains accumulate in lake sediments, allowed researchers to estimate past July temperatures with a resolution reaching back 16,000 years.
phys.org · 21 Oct
What ancient Latin Sounded Like, based on linguistic clues
Rudder drew from ancient rhetorician Quintilian and Virgil’s poetic meter to understand Latin pronunciation.
openculture.com · 22 Oct
Shakespeare and marlowe collaborated on “Edward III”
Researchers identified 23 segments of “Edward III” written by Shakespeare and 9 segments by Christopher Marlowe through computational linguistic analysis.
almadapaper.net · 20 Oct
Farmer unearths remains of pharaoh’s colossal statues in Egypt
The head of one statue measures approximately 1.6 meters in height.
novinky.cz · 21 Oct
Elite Infant buried with ceramics at Peruvian temple
The burial included more than 30 ceramic objects depicting scenes of Moche life and beliefs.
archaeology.org · 20 Oct
Four-winged dinosaur fossil found in China
The Norellraptor barsboldi fossil shows the dinosaur had feathers preserved well enough to reveal it was approximately three years old at the time of its death.
noticiasambientales.com · 22 Oct
Portugal’s origins: pluralism as a national identity
Between the 12th and 15th centuries, Portugal saw a clear difference from much of Europe in its delayed implementation of persecution against Jewish people.
observador.pt · 21 Oct
Mekong River microplastics linked to waste collection access
Researchers identified an average of 3 to 4 microplastics per liter of water in the Mekong River during their 2022 sampling.
phys.org · 20 Oct
Peru’s first fish collection tracks mining’s impact
The collection currently contains over 2000 samples representing approximately 300 fish species from the Madre de Dios region.
es.mongabay.com · 21 Oct
Jane Austen published first novel, sense and sensibility
Jane Austen received 150 pounds for the publication of Sense and Sensibility, which would be approximately 18,000 euros today.
eldiario.es · 20 Oct
Ramnami community inscribe faith on skin to resist caste bias
Filmmaker Bharatbala Ganapathy’s documentary “Ram-Nami” received the Best Documentary award at the 72nd National Film Awards.
thelogicalindian.com · 20 Oct
Mountaineering forged enduring New Zealand-India ties
Sir Edmund Hillary’s jet boat expedition up the Ganges River in 1977 drew crowds estimated to exceed New Zealand’s entire population of three million people.
newsroom.co.nz · 22 Oct
Ancient mosaic found at anatolian trading city
The largest surviving section of the mosaic floor at Kültepe-Kanesh measures around five feet square.
archaeology.org · 21 Oct
Artist Ibrahim Mahama exhibits work rooted in Ghana's history
Mahama constructed three art centers in his hometown of Tamale, Ghana, including the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, the Red Clay Studio, and Nkrumah Volini.
rfi.fr · 20 Oct
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New Quebec museum pavilion celebrates Jean Paul Riopelle
The Espace Riopelle-Michael Audain Pavilion spans nearly 54,000 square-feet and overlooks both the Plains of Abraham and the St. Lawrence River.
smithsonianmag.com · 22 Oct
Korean and Indian artists explore shared landscapes in Hyderabad
The exhibition showcased approximately 25 mixed-media works created by artists from South Korea and India.
thehindu.com · 22 Oct
Muskox preceded humans in northeast Greenland
Researchers identified DNA from 121 native plant species and nine animal taxa in Greenlandic lake sediments.
biorxiv.org · 21 Oct
Book explores making of anime film “Grave of the Fireflies”
Seven notebooks filled with Isao Takahata’s creative notes for Grave of the Fireflies were found in his garage after his death in 2019.
nippon.com · 20 Oct
Venezuela’s moriche palms store carbon, support communities
Morichales can capture up to 590.8 metric tons of carbon per hectare, making them among the most effective ecosystems for carbon sequestration.
news.mongabay.com · 22 Oct
Tamil literature examines health, stigma and caste
Imayam’s novel Noiputtru meticulously documents the lives of patients with leprosy in a 1960s Tamil Nadu leprosarium, including detailed descriptions of their physical disfigurement.
thehindu.com · 22 Oct
Early South Indian art depicts Saraswati without her veena
The art discovered in South India dates back to a period before the veena became a standard element in depictions of Saraswati.
thehindu.com · 22 Oct
Telangana Park yields possible Neolithic grooves and rock art
The discovered grooves may be linked to Neolithic-period activities dating back approximately 7,000 years.
thehindu.com · 22 Oct
Research links Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” to actual sky
The researchers found the angle between the moon and Venus, the moon’s shape, and the position of the Hyades star cluster at 3 AM on July 22nd most closely matched the restored field of view in the painting.
yna.co.kr · 22 Oct
Sponge species confirmed in Yucatan cenotes after decades
Researchers identified differences in the length of sponge birotules, internal skeletal structures, between the two cenotes, with those in Sabak-Ha measuring 44.65 to 72.96 micrometers, compared to 32.66 to 43.15 micrometers in Suhem.
bioengineer.org · 20 Oct
Islamic rulers married Hindu wives
In the 16th-century Mughal Empire in India, the majority of the population was Hindu and the rulers often married people of that faith.
diepresse.com · 20 Oct
Spanish Royal Academy recognizes El Salvador’s “terenga”
The Dictionary of Americanisms contains around 70,000 words and 120,000 definitions of terms used throughout the Americas.
elsalvador.com · 20 Oct
Dancer Tyler jo Smith studies ancient Greek art
Martha Graham’s dance company first performed in Greece 62 years ago, and her work has inspired generations of dancers since the 1970s.
tanea.gr · 22 Oct
Exhibit connects ancient power plays to modern true Crime
The exhibit features the Gemma Augustea, a carved onyx cameo created between 9 and 12 AD that entered Habsburg possession in the 16th century.
orf.at · 20 Oct
Portrait of Mughal adviser sells for £63,500
The painting sold for £63,500, exceeding the auction house’s upper estimate by £13,500.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 20 Oct
Black Death reduced plant diversity across Europe
The Black Death caused plant diversity in Europe to fall for 150 years, with biodiversity only beginning to rise again as human populations recovered.
zmescience.com · 20 Oct
Tool maps links between myths using AI
The system analyzes texts by embedding them into a shared digital space, revealing how semantic structures align with documented historical relationships between cultures.
arxiv.org · 21 Oct
Příbor, Czech republic opens Freud’s birthplace as exhibition
The exhibition features a book Freud received as a school prize at age 12, donated by his great-grandson, making it the only object in the exhibition Freud is known to have held.
english.radio.cz · 20 Oct
Fingerprints reveal details about terracotta army creators
The fingerprints found on the Terracotta Army warriors are over 2,200 years old.
wyborcza.pl · 22 Oct
Amateur treasure hunters aid and harm archaeology
Experts in Germany excavated more than 900 silver coins, the largest collection of its kind discovered in the country.
delo.si · 22 Oct
El Bosco and Bruegel’s visions arrive in Spain
The Garden of Earthly Delights is the most visited work at the Museo del Prado museum.
elpais.com · 22 Oct
Swiss collector Gertrud dübi-Müller’s collection returns to Basel
Gertrud Dübi-Müller started building her art collection at 18 or 19 years old, acquiring a Van Gogh portrait in 1907 or 1908.
lemonde.fr · 21 Oct
Dataset reveals history of Black women mathematicians
The dataset includes 147 Black women who have earned doctoral degrees in mathematics and related fields in the United States.
arxiv.org · 21 Oct
ENDOW project maps social networks across 29 countries
The ENDOW project gathered data from 50 communities spanning 29 countries, creating a uniquely diverse dataset for studying social networks.
arxiv.org · 22 Oct
Researchers date van Gogh’s “starry night” to July 22
The study pinpointed a specific date, July 22, 1889, when the night sky matched the depiction in “The Starry Night,” based on the positions of stars, Venus, and the moon.
dn.se · 22 Oct
New Andean plant species discovered in Peru’s Manu National Park
The newly discovered plant, Puya ukumari, can grow up to two meters in height and features petals so dark blue they appear nearly black.
andina.pe · 21 Oct
Exhibit explores Cleopatra’s power struggles in ancient world
The upcoming exhibit will feature approximately 100 objects loaned from museums in six countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
wien.orf.at · 20 Oct
Steffy Goldner became first woman in New York philharmonic
Steffy Goldner played harp with the New York Philharmonic for ten years before the orchestra hired another woman, 34 years after she left.
diepresse.com · 20 Oct
India’s vegetable diversity declines as hybrids dominate
India ranks lowest in vegetable productivity (tonnes/hectare) among the top five vegetable-producing countries, despite being the second-highest producer globally.
scroll.in · 21 Oct
AI reproduces Indian textile designs, raising ownership questions
Tata Consultancy Services showcased Bridgital Loom, an AI system that can convert textile designs into loom-ready instructions, claiming a new weaver typically takes 15 years to master the art.
aljazeera.com · 21 Oct
Peruvian crops added to global seed vault
Peru contributed 46 varieties of kiwicha to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, along with 20 varieties of quinoa.
andina.pe · 22 Oct
Nara’s kongō rikishi statues date to 1485
The restored statues’ inscriptions identified the sculptor Shunkei and his son, Shunjo, as creators during the Muromachi period.
asahi.com · 22 Oct
Longwood Gardens cultivates record-breaking chrysanthemum
Longwood Gardens grew a single chrysanthemum plant with 1,542 blooms, the largest ever produced outside of Japan.
daily.jstor.org · 22 Oct
Nymburk renovation unearths possible centuries-old ossuary
Excavations revealed a roughly 10-centimeter layer of burned human bones alongside scattered remains and cemetery wall sections.
expats.cz · 20 Oct
Einstein and Gibbs developed similar Statistical theories
Both Gibbs and Einstein independently defined temperature as the quantity that equalises when systems exchange energy, characterizing equilibrium without kinetic theory.
arxiv.org · 22 Oct
AI aids research into Turkic history in Kyrgyzstan
Scientists are creating a 3D database of ancient Turkic sculptures with collaborators from Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
open.kg · 22 Oct
Van Gogh painted ‘the starry night’ on a July morning
Researchers pinpointed the date of Van Gogh's observation to the early morning hours of July 22, 1889, by matching celestial bodies in the painting to astronomical positions.
elpais.com · 22 Oct
Malmö unveils anti-racism monument and art exhibition
The monument contains a capsule holding 100 unopened letters detailing children’s experiences with racism and discrimination.
dn.se · 21 Oct
Tarzan film’s Algerian roots remain unproven
The 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man cost $652,675 to produce, a significant sum during the Great Depression.
algeriepatriotique.com · 22 Oct
New book links Donald Judd’s art to everyday objects
Neil Levine’s book features a sculpture called To Susan Buckwalter on its cover, a piece that initially “scared” the author in 1965.
theartnewspaper.com · 20 Oct
Westminster Abbey finds monk buried in Roman sarcophagus
Researchers identified the later burial as occurring during the early Anglo-Saxon period, between 600 and 800 AD.
derstandard.at · 21 Oct
Zurich’s 1576 map showed power and daily life
Jos Murer’s 1576 map of Zurich depicted each house with such precision that it remains virtually aligned with modern city plans today.
nzz.ch · 21 Oct
Kazakh artist Batima Zaurbekova’s work celebrated
Batima Zaurbekova spent fifteen hours each day working on tapestries in the late 1960s, despite teachers suggesting she could paint three paintings in the same time.
timesca.com · 22 Oct
Anna Jagellonská’s life shaped Habsburg rule
Fifteen children were born to Anna Jagellonská and Ferdinand I, and the exhibition features portraits of them by Jakob Seisenegger.
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz · 22 Oct
Ricardo Caminos’s life bridged Argentine roots and Egyptian scholarship
The Archaeological Survey of Egypt, founded in 1889, aimed to document Egypt’s monuments and employed notable figures like Howard Carter and Percy Newberry.
the-past.com · 21 Oct
Taiwan creates DNA reference library for 48 mammal species
The study generated 157 new mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences, representing 48 recognized mammal species across seven orders.
bioengineer.org · 20 Oct
Chilean historian explores nation’s past through rare texts
Gonzalo Peralta’s book examines eight historical accounts and features images sourced from archives including the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos.
latercera.com · 21 Oct
Mizo translation improves access to Indian courts
Fine-tuning the NLLB 200 1.3B model with the new dataset yielded a BLEU score of 27.47 on a balanced legal test set.
arxiv.org · 22 Oct
Deep learning tracks Paris urban change over decades
The system analyzed historical maps of Paris covering a period of 69 years, from 1868 to 1937, to quantify urban changes.
arxiv.org · 21 Oct
Artist leads volunteer network for Jingdezhen residents
By August 2025, the “Yang Jingpiao” volunteer team had assisted over 500 foreign residents in Jingdezhen, China.
alwihdainfo.com · 20 Oct
New York’s Metropolitan Museum to exhibit Spanish artifacts
The terracotta head of Heracles, on loan from the Museum of Huelva, measures only 7.2 centimeters in height.
20minutos.es · 21 Oct
WWII refugees founded universities while interned in Australia
Leonhard Adam, a former German judge, published an article in a German law journal documenting the laws and customs of First Nations people after conducting fieldwork during World War I.
theconversation.com · 22 Oct
Scientists reaffirm Alpine newt’s identity from 1768 description
Laurenti’s 1768 description placed the creature in a lake, and researchers found Austrian temperature records suggest it was improbable for fire salamanders to occupy that cold environment at the time.
bioengineer.org · 20 Oct
ISESCO journal explores Arabic novel, Islamic heritage
ISESCO launched a program to train 10,000 leaders in the applications of artificial intelligence during 2026.
aawsat.com · 21 Oct
Hungary’s Museum of fine arts unpacks major Gauguin painting
The oil painting, Portrait of a Young Girl. Vaïte (Jeanne) Goupil, measures 75 by 65 centimeters.
telex.hu · 22 Oct
Riddles reveal cultural gaps in AI reasoning
The CulturalRiddles benchmark includes over 1,700 riddles representing 62 distinct cultures.
arxiv.org · 22 Oct
Harold Cruse’s ideas faced obscurity despite impact
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was assigned Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual in three different classes at Yale.
theatlantic.com · 22 Oct
Spirits inspire artists to challenge social order
Lacamo, the spirit guiding Paulina Peavey, envisioned a future where humanity evolves toward “one-gender perfection” starting in the 1930s.
hyperallergic.com · 21 Oct
Ancient Trail shows how nature and culture clash
Researchers found that antagonistic coupling, where biodiversity and cultural diversity occur in separate areas, accounted for 98.90% of the Huizhou-Hangzhou Ancient Trail study area.
journals.plos.org · 22 Oct
Anne Brönte’s novel challenges Victorian norms
Charlotte Brönte discouraged the publication of her sister Anne’s novel, believing it was too harsh for Victorian readers.
abc.es · 20 Oct
Fossil analysis challenges assumptions about ancient mammal sex differences
Researchers measured approximately 30 Uintatherium anceps skulls and found no clear statistical separation suggesting drastically different sizes between males and females.
scitechdaily.com · 21 Oct
Ducks hybridize in captivity, challenging species barriers
Researchers documented four instances of crosses between ducks from different genera, entirely different groupings, during the study period.
bioengineer.org · 20 Oct
Kenyan English gains recognition as distinct language
The KENGLEX Project has created an online dictionary, kenglex.com, that defines and translates words used in Kenyan English into standard English.
eastleighvoice.co.ke · 20 Oct
Books explore shifts in values and the power of stories
Jorge Volpi’s Homo Pictus spans over 1,300 pages, traversing vast periods of time and blending science, history, philosophy, and literature.
yna.co.kr · 22 Oct
Korean author finds success after years of rejection
The Rain Magic Market sold over 30,000 copies across all formats in its first month of release.
dw.com · 20 Oct
Book explores Tang dynasty through mother-daughter trip
The Tang Dynasty lasted for nearly three centuries, spanning from 618 to 907.
arabnews.com · 21 Oct
Poem of protest: author once distanced himself from anthem
Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’ recited the poem while walking to the gallows in Gorakhpur Jail in 1927.
indianexpress.com · 22 Oct
Tunisia shares cuisine with South Korea
Shinja Koo translated a book containing 58 Tunisian recipes into Korean for a South Korean audience.
webdo.tn · 21 Oct
Japan's origins: a 19th century theory linking them to lost Israeli tribes
Nicholas McLeod believed Shintoism, a religion central to Japanese culture, was a far-off version of Judaism.
letemps.ch · 22 Oct
Ancient Egypt Magazine details festival life and archaeological sites
Ricardo A Caminos dedicated much of his career to recording inscriptions located high on rock faces, often while working from precarious ladders.
the-past.com · 22 Oct
Soutine and Savdie link past and present visions of violence
Chaïm Soutine created “Hanging Turkey” around 1925, transforming a commonplace subject into a depiction of suffering inspired by El Greco.
hyperallergic.com · 21 Oct
New parasite species discovered in Chinese fish
Researchers identified the new parasite species by analyzing a 1,731 base pair sequence of its ribosomal DNA, depositing the data in GenBank under accession number PV785691.
bioengineer.org · 20 Oct
Yonaguni monument: debate continues over Japanese underwater structure
The Yonaguni Monument measures approximately 100 meters in length and reaches a height of 25 meters.
exame.com · 22 Oct
Oaxaca hosts first festival spotlighting Afro-Mexican culture
Almost 9% of residents in Guerrero, a state bordering Oaxaca, identified as Afro-Mexican or Afro-descendant in Mexico’s 2020 census.
mexiconewsdaily.com · 20 Oct
Milan’s history reveals Roman views on integration
After a campaign in what is now Italy’s Aosta Valley, Roman forces sold 36,000 Salassi people, including 8,000 fighting-age men, into slavery.
greenme.it · 20 Oct
Hilma af Klint painting may set new price record
The painting Ser III No. 5 measures 38.5cm by 29cm.
theartnewspaper.com · 20 Oct
Strasbourg’s 1518 dancing plague: a city overcome
Around 400 people in Strasbourg were dancing uncontrollably by late August, succumbing to the mysterious urge to hop, jerk, and sway.
popsci.com · 20 Oct
New analysis links van Gogh’s “starry night” to specific night sky
Researchers linked details in “The Starry Night” to the position of the Hyades star cluster and the planet Venus as they would have appeared on the morning of July 22, 1889.
mainichi.jp · 22 Oct
GBoy blends Bakiga culture with modern Ugandan music
GBoy’s song “Kyakweera” generated more than 10,000 TikTok dance challenges.
nilepost.co.ug · 22 Oct
Nepal’s AI system listened for tigers to prevent attacks
The acoustic monitoring devices used in the pilot project cost approximately $60 each and were powered by solar energy.
news.mongabay.com · 20 Oct
Kiefer’s massive painting gains dedicated pavilion in Germany
The new pavilion for Black Flakes covers 140 square meters and was designed in close collaboration with the artist, Anselm Kiefer.
theartnewspaper.com · 22 Oct
Canada explores Arctic DNA for new medicines
Researchers can now reconstruct complete genomes of unculturable organisms from permafrost cores using bioinformaticians and advanced genomic tools.
genengnews.com · 20 Oct
Skulls returned to Finland came from beyond its borders
Karolinska Institutet returned human remains to Finland in August 2024 after collecting them from Finnish graves starting in 1873.
aftonbladet.se · 20 Oct
Afghan women lead civil resistance against gender apartheid
Researchers documented at least 67 arrests of protesting activists in Afghanistan, gathered through interviews and information from the protest movements themselves.
8am.media · 21 Oct
Christians feel forgiveness after repentance
Participants reported average repentance scores of 2.52 out of 4 on the first day after wrongdoing, while feelings of absolution started lower at 1.90 out of 4.
psypost.org · 22 Oct
Researchers date van Gogh’s “starry night” to specific night
Van Gogh created “The Starry Night” after a period of personal crisis in the winter of 1888.
spiegel.de · 22 Oct
Returned skulls reveal unexpected origins
The Karolinska Institutet returned a total of 82 human skulls to Finland in August 2024 after they were taken for research in the 1800s.
iltalehti.fi · 20 Oct
Perfumer Lyn Harris recreates scents from art and life
Lyn Harris’s hand-blown perfume bottles cost £650 each.
theartnewspaper.com · 20 Oct
Chilean new song albums rescued by National Library
The library digitizes approximately 120 hours of sound recordings annually to preserve Chile’s cultural heritage.
latercera.com · 22 Oct
Dinosaur footprints confirmed in Thailand after tourist’s photo
The confirmed dinosaur footprints each measure approximately 29 centimetres long and 26 centimetres wide.
thethaiger.com · 20 Oct
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s art foretold tech’s impact on identity
Hershman Leeson received her first solo museum show in New York only in 2021, when she was 80 years old.
koreaherald.com · 20 Oct
God’s name and presence in Exodus
The name YHWH is linked to the Hebrew verb meaning “to be,” and scholars commonly translate it as “He brings into existence all that exists.”
eurasiareview.com · 20 Oct
Gemini telescope captures detailed image of 1181 supernova
The Gemini North telescope captured the image of PA 30 after observing it for six nights between July 26 and August 5, 2025, and the resulting picture is among the most detailed ever taken of this supernova remnant, which is 7,500 light-years from Earth.
lemonde.fr · 20 Oct
Im jik-soon’s retrospective captures inner worlds through color
The exhibition features over 100 of Im Jik-soon’s works, including approximately 80 oil paintings.
hankyung.com · 20 Oct
Plate depicts warrior possibly identifying as female
The copper plate measures approximately 11 inches (28 centimeters) tall and was buried with a person who likely died around 1350.
livescience.com · 19 Oct
Amulet in Germany reveals fluidity of early Christian beliefs
The amulet preserves verses from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians in Latin, a first for archaeological finds.
unn.ua · 19 Oct
Balinese women redefine dance roles
The Luh Luwih troupe consists of thirty members, most of whom are middle-aged women.
daily.jstor.org · 16 Oct
China and the Met recreate ancient mural to reveal errors
Zhang Jian’s team discovered the Buddha’s head in the Met’s mural was off-kilter by 2 centimeters due to a past mounting error.
goodnewsnetwork.org · 19 Oct
Enheduanna: princess became world’s first author
Enheduanna explicitly stated that she created something “that no one has created before,” marking one of the earliest known claims of authorship.
zmescience.com · 19 Oct
Egypt to loan Fayum portraits for first time after restoration
The Tondo of the Two Brothers measures approximately 62 centimeters in diameter and is less than one centimeter thick.
eldiario.es · 17 Oct
Lost film of Pamir expedition surfaces after Stalin ban
The 1928 Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs involved a caravan carrying over eight tons of food, equipment, and supplies.
asiaplus.news · 19 Oct
Historian Godfrey Muriuki recovered African history
Muriuki’s 1974 book, A History of the Kikuyu, 1500 to 1900, covered six centuries of Kikuyu history before British colonization.
nation.africa · 18 Oct
Biography revisits life of girl ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria
Professor Lovejoy discovered a plaster bust of Bonetta created in 1851 for use in phrenology, a discredited practice attempting to link skull shape to personality traits.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 19 Oct
Ancient beads reveal early human craftsmanship
The researchers identified nineteen different types of beads among the collection of 142 items.
unian.net · 18 Oct
2000-year-old warship found off Crimea’s coast
Researchers found a crane feather inside the ship, suggesting it sank during fighting in 63 BCE.
unian.net · 16 Oct
Sufi shrines blend Islamic beliefs with local art
Artisans traditionally viewed their trade as a devotional practice, crafting details like geometric khatamband designs on ceilings and carved marble lattice work known as jalis.
scroll.in · 19 Oct
Teotihuacan symbols may represent lost writing system
Researchers analysed hundreds of markings across Teotihuacan’s artwork, suggesting a potential writing system.
colombiaone.com · 17 Oct
Kyrgyzstan archaeologists study rare dragon stele
Scientists created three-dimensional models of the stele using photogrammetry, a technique for making measurements from photographs.
open.kg · 16 Oct
Hindi translation reveals shared human anxieties in Lithuanian author’s work
The author deliberately varied a character’s name, addressing him as both “Serioza” and “Serge”, to emphasize his resistance to fixed identities.
scroll.in · 18 Oct
Ancient tools link rock art to daily life in Portugal
The discovered stone tools date back 26,000 years, making them the oldest artifacts found directly adjacent to the Côa valley’s rock art panels.
newscientist.com · 19 Oct
Alaskan artifacts link early people across Bering Land Bridge
The team unearthed over a thousand artifacts from less than 11 square feet at the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ site.
gizmodo.com · 16 Oct
AI tools now aid pilgrims on ancient paths
An AI assistant helped two researchers discover stories and traditions on a Japanese pilgrimage that they would have otherwise missed by leaving behind information panels.
eldiario.es · 16 Oct
Tate Modern expands Pictorialism photography’s history
The exhibition features work by over 80 artists from across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia, bringing together approximately 200 rare vintage prints.
artcentron.com · 16 Oct
Hallaton helmet reveals Roman cavalry’s artistry
Conservators discovered over 5,000 Iron Age and Roman coins alongside the Hallaton Helmet, suggesting the site was used for ceremonial feasts.
zmescience.com · 16 Oct
India’s classical music reflects Hindu-Muslim unity
Parur Sundaram Iyer urged Gandhi to establish a music university, believing it would help spread Hindu-Muslim unity and hasten India’s independence.
scroll.in · 18 Oct
Communities north of early Iberian state built fortifications
Researchers analyzed 1,517 Bronze Age settlements, finding that 87% were newly founded during a period of significant change.
eldiario.es · 19 Oct
Roman villa discovered beneath Spanish grain field
The excavation began on September 14th, revealing a monumental courtyard with sandstone pillars just below the surface of a grain field.
xataka.com · 18 Oct
AI solves 200-year-old napoleonic cipher
AI broke a 200-year-old Napoleonic cipher in just six hours, a task that could have taken weeks for human experts.
iraqinews.com · 16 Oct
Russia’s 11th-century bread peel also served as game board
The discovered bread peel measures approximately 30 by 40 centimeters, providing a relatively large and well-preserved example of medieval ingenuity.
livescience.com · 19 Oct
Germain silverware returns to Portugal after centuries
The auction of 59 lots, including paintings, furniture, porcelain, and silverware, from the Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares collection raised nearly 40 million euros.
observador.pt · 18 Oct
Americas had developed societies before colonization
Archaeologists identified over 60,000 Mayan structures in Guatemala using LiDAR technology, revealing the scale of pre-Columbian urban development.
eldiario.es · 18 Oct
Romans burned Celtic town in Spain during conquest
The Roman military camp discovered in Spain had a stone perimeter wall approximately 5 feet (1.5 meters) thick.
livescience.com · 19 Oct
AI decodes Napoleon’s letter and Notre-Dame records
An AI model deciphered a 1809 letter from Napoleon in just six hours, a task that could have taken weeks using traditional methods.
sciencesetavenir.fr · 16 Oct
Rare water lily discovered in Colombia after Instagram post
Researchers documented only seven Victoria colombiana plants during their expedition, indicating the plant’s extreme rarity.
colombiaone.com · 17 Oct
Exhibition explores Puerto Rican identity beyond borders
The exhibition features work from more than sixty artists spanning multiple generations and representing countries across North and South America, Europe, and Australia.
hyperallergic.com · 19 Oct
Revised chronicle details 16th-century Korean War
Ryu Song-nyong served as a scholar-official during the Joseon dynasty and lived from 1542 to 1607.
koreaherald.com · 18 Oct
Peter Jackson returns moa egg to New Zealand
Only around three dozen moa eggs have ever been found, making this a remarkably rare recovery.
gizmodo.com · 19 Oct
Ancient chewers: betel nut use reaches 25,000 years ago
Researchers found evidence of betel nut use in teeth dating as far back as 25,000 years ago in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
freemalaysiatoday.com · 20 Oct
Foucault found contemporary critique in ancient thought
Foucault analyzed texts by authors including Antipater of Tarsus and Hierocles, reconstructing ancient practices of regulating desire that formed the basis for his books Sexuality and Truth (1984).
faz.net · 18 Oct
Ancient ritual bath unearthed in Israel dates to time of Jesus
The discovered mikveh dates back 2,000 years to the Second Temple period, coinciding with the time Jesus lived.
rp.pl · 18 Oct
Photography revealed cosmic rays in physicist’s work
Two photographic plates placed at Sandakphu revealed 30 “star-like tracks”, microscopic records of nuclear disintegration.
scroll.in · 17 Oct
Congo’s century-old records reveal warming trend
The frequency of extremely hot days in the Congo Basin almost doubled between the 1960s and the 1980s, based on the newly digitised historical records.
sciencealert.com · 17 Oct
Rosana Paulino reclaims Brazilian history through art
Rosana Paulino received a $25,000 award alongside the 2025 to 27 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice.
hyperallergic.com · 19 Oct
Fingerprints reveal women and children built Terracotta Army
Researchers estimated that 22.3 percent of the fingerprints on the Terracotta Army came from children under the age of 15.
sciencealert.com · 17 Oct
Salamanca’s old cathedral yields Roman artifacts and earlier structures
The excavation uncovered a remarkably well-preserved bronze Roman cauldron with a decorated handle and loop.
xataka.com · 18 Oct
Coppergate dig rewrote understanding of Viking life in York
Archaeologists at Coppergate recovered 40,000 Viking-era objects, the largest collection ever found in Britain.
bbc.co.uk · 16 Oct
Terracotta army built by women and children
The research team identified fingerprints on 36 terracotta warriors, revealing an estimated 22% were left by children under the age of 15.
klix.ba · 17 Oct
Reading fluency links to reasoning about beliefs in adults
Reading fluency accounted for 49 percent of the variation in participants’ performance on a test of reasoning about others’ beliefs.
psypost.org · 17 Oct
Oldest known shipwreck dates to time of Great Pyramid
Researchers found an amphora with nine marks and two holes, possibly used as a butter or cheese maker, hinting at the sailors’ self-sufficiency on long voyages.
xataka.com · 17 Oct
Ring depicts lighthouse of Alexandria, ancient wonder
The discovered bronze ring features a depiction of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
foxnews.com · 18 Oct
Philosopher challenges western foundations of reason
Meziane identifies a 1900-year gap between the philosophies of Aristote and Descartes within the traditional Western canon.
lemonde.fr · 18 Oct
Neanderthal survived lance wound 75,000 years ago
Researchers determined the injured Neanderthal likely survived at least a year, and possibly longer, after receiving a severe blow to the face.
xataka.com · 18 Oct
Train delay attributed to solar storm happened years later
Researchers found records showing a magnetic storm swept over Britain on October 18, 1848, coinciding with the time of the reported train delay.
zmescience.com · 19 Oct
New Peruvian plant named after Lionel Messi
The newly identified ‘salvia messii’ plant grows at altitudes ranging from 2,000 to 2,400 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes.
elcomercio.com · 20 Oct
Senghor’s poetry revealed through archives and research
Claire Riffard analyzed Senghor’s work as part of a CNRS collection that previously featured writers like Baudelaire, Voltaire, and Virginia Woolf.
rfi.fr · 18 Oct
Ancient Egyptian god may have inspired Oscar design
Cedric Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, and frequently visited William Randolph Hearst, who owned the Ptah statuette.
euronews.com · 19 Oct
AI reveals European trade fueled British Empire’s rise
The research team identified over 101,000 cargo entries for coal, the most frequently recorded commodity in the historical customs data.
independent.co.uk · 19 Oct
Ancient road may link to Jesus’ crucifixion site
The discovered section of ancient road measures approximately 3 by 3.6 meters and features a wide, shallow step.
elsalvador.com · 16 Oct
Cannupa Hanska Luger links bison slaughter to Indigenous trauma
General Philip H. Sheridan once encouraged buffalo hunters to continue their work, believing they had done more to resolve the “Indian question” than the army had in thirty years.
hyperallergic.com · 16 Oct
Artist links family history to space exploration
Larpjaroensook’s sculpture Vehasayan uses real-time data from NASA to control its lighting and movement, reflecting the current distance of the Voyager 1 probe from Earth.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 16 Oct
Archaeologists discover rare Bronze Age finds in Sweden
Archaeologists found three bronze artifacts, a double button, a dress pin, and part of a pair of tweezers, inside the 3500-year-old grave.
svt.se · 16 Oct
AI decodes 200-year-old Napoleon cipher
AI decoded a 200-year-old Napoleonic cipher in just six hours, a task that would have taken weeks for humans to complete.
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz · 17 Oct
Tiziano’s sacred and profane love shown with newly restored annunciation
Restorers discovered a velvet canopy hidden behind the walls of The Annunciation depicting the Virgin Mary’s virginity.
ansa.it · 19 Oct
Czech archaeologist studies ancient life through trash
Daniel Pilař’s research covers sites not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Uzbekistan and Turkey.
novinky.cz · 19 Oct
Hittite royal archive discovered in Turkey
The newly discovered tablets bring the total number of tablets found at Kayalipinar to 184.
biblicalarchaeology.org · 16 Oct
Cave formation rewrites history of agriculture
The stalagmite studied formed over 18,000 years, preserving a record of climate conditions in the Fertile Crescent.
futura-sciences.com · 19 Oct
Oldest known homicide? archaeologists detail 75,000-year-old neandertal death
The wooden spear used in the attack had a sharpened tip measuring approximately 1.5 centimeters wide.
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz · 17 Oct
Pounamu’s strength confirmed by Māori carvers’ skill
Pounamu is five times tougher than similar stones found in other countries, according to the scientists’ tests.
rnz.co.nz · 17 Oct
Rare manuscript reveals work of influential Italian poet
The rediscovered manuscript contains Vincenzo Monti’s poem, “Sciolti a Sigismondo Chigi,” which influenced the work of poets Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi.
rainews.it · 19 Oct
New sage species named after Lionel Messi discovered in Peru
The newly discovered Salvia messii grows in a limited area of only 2,000 to 2,400 meters altitude in the Andes Mountains.
lanacion.com.ar · 16 Oct
Otto I’s heart may rest among ancient glass
Archaeologists confirmed the skeleton in Otto I’s tomb matched contemporary descriptions of the emperor, despite the tomb being disturbed multiple times over the last millennium, including use as a stable by Napoleon’s forces.
welt.de · 17 Oct
Ancient crocodile species links Egypt and Malaysia
The newly identified Herugavialis cairensis fossil skull was missing its snout, mirroring the missing nose of the Great Sphinx.
freemalaysiatoday.com · 18 Oct
Faith tested by fire: Venezuela’s María Lionza cult
Edward Guidice has practiced the Baile en Candela ritual for 30 years and has been a devotee of María Lionza for 42 years.
talcualdigital.com · 18 Oct
Etruscan statue’s black Coating may Be deliberate
Researchers identified layers of two copper oxides, tenorite and cuprite, beneath the black coating on the statue, indicating a deliberate process may have created the color.
archaeology.org · 16 Oct
Egypt practiced human sacrifice, archaeological evidence suggests
Researchers identified trauma on 18 of 46 skulls, with injuries including linear fractures likely causing rapid loss of consciousness and internal bleeding.
delo.si · 16 Oct
China developed early smallpox inoculation with detailed records
Chinese medical texts document a practice of repeatedly transmitting inoculation material through at least seven people to improve its quality and reduce reactions.
news.sciencenet.cn · 19 Oct
Bats’ ancestors likely originated in Europe
Researchers analyzed genomes from 103 bat species, representing all 21 living bat families, and data from 44 prehistoric fossils to reach their conclusions.
mongabay.co.id · 19 Oct
Five-thousand-year-old ship reveals ancient trade routes
Archaeologists recovered over 30 large clay vessels, called amphorae, from the wreck, many still containing traces of their original contents after millennia underwater.
bbc.com · 19 Oct
Agbegnigan Yaovi explores communication’s impact on Africa
Agbegnigan Yaovi’s books cover journalism, diplomacy, and cultural identity, all with a focus on how communication impacts contemporary African society.
cajnewsafrica.com · 19 Oct
Armenia seeks to preserve Western Armenian
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has injected significant funding into Armenia to support Western Armenian preservation efforts.
hetq.am · 18 Oct
Lawyer documents Raja Ravi Varma’s impact on Indian art
Ganesh Shivaswamy has completed four volumes of his six-volume series on Raja Ravi Varma, after years of research into archives and family collections.
indianexpress.com · 18 Oct
Scientists identify cause of Botticelli’s model’s death
Simonetta Vespucci died at the age of 23, and scientists have now identified a cause of death different from the long-held belief that it was tuberculosis.
lemonde.fr · 19 Oct
Vilnius reveals Ottoman power through ceramics
Archaeologists uncovered eight fragments of Iznik pottery at the Lower Castle of Vilnius, a rare find in Lithuanian archaeological materials.
lrt.lt · 16 Oct
Lavina fontana painted nudes challenged renaissance norms
Fontana received a commission to paint more than 12 religious paintings for church altars, challenging the assumption that women could not secure such prestigious work.
bbc.com · 18 Oct
Estonia will preserve Soviet-era cottage culture
Estonia’s researchers are mapping a heritage of nearly 50,000 summer cottages built between 1950 and 1980.
news.err.ee · 17 Oct
Lorca’s dresses resurface after Uruguayan discovery
Margarita Xirgu carried nine dresses from a 1930 Lorca play to Uruguay, where they remained undiscovered for over 80 years.
lavanguardia.com · 18 Oct
New grasshopper species discovered in Iran
The newly discovered male grasshopper measured approximately 55.5 millimeters in length.
naftemporiki.gr · 17 Oct
New cat species discovered in Bolivia after over a century
Genetic analysis revealed the new cat species diverged from other tigrina cats approximately 1.4 million years ago.
xataka.com · 18 Oct
Zgraf’s history preserved in new book after archive challenges
The new monograph spans almost 400 pages and details 50 years of the Zgraf international design exhibition.
vecernji.hr · 19 Oct
Diary resurfaces, revealing German’s rescue of Jews in Japan
Renate Quastler’s diary, discovered on eBay for $9,500, contains photographs showing her father, Ernst Quastler, standing with Willy Rudolf Foerster at a company event in Tokyo.
jpost.com · 18 Oct
Researchers define awakening as long-term change in experience
The researchers’ model describes awakening as a graded shift along a “dereification gradient,” moving from fixed to relational experience.
arxiv.org · 16 Oct
Ancient Egypt’s adornments reveal trade networks
By the Naqada III period (around 3200-3100 BC), Egyptians were incorporating lapis lazuli, sourced from present-day Afghanistan, into their personal adornments.
the-past.com · 19 Oct
Egypt: resident unearths two giant Ramsès II statues
The first statue’s base and figure together would have stood 8.5 meters tall.
lalibre.be · 19 Oct
Apple’s journey: from Central Asia to global myth
Nikolai Vavilov identified Malus sieversii, a wild apple species from Kazakhstan, as the direct ancestor of the apples people eat today.
adevarul.ro · 17 Oct
History shapes beauty standards, Daverio argues
Daverio connected the word “moderno” (modern) to the “modus parisiensis,” a faster writing style developed with goose quill pens in 11th-century France.
ilfattoquotidiano.it · 17 Oct
Egyptian resident unearths head of Ramses II statue
The excavated head of Ramses II measures 1.60 meters tall, including the crown.
vol.at · 16 Oct
Fuzhou balances heritage preservation with modern life
Historians in Yongtai county discovered over 152 well-preserved fortified manors dating back to the Tang Dynasty.
alwihdainfo.com · 17 Oct
Kenyan Orma community seeks language inclusion after centuries of preservation
Despite living over 2,000 kilometres from Oromia, Ethiopia, the Orma Oromo community in Kenya has preserved its language and culture for more than 500 years.
eastleighvoice.co.ke · 16 Oct
London Museum to display Sri lankan rubies from Cheapside Hoard
The Cheapside Hoard contains nearly 500 jewels and precious objects dating from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
island.lk · 18 Oct
Korean county commemorates Vietnamese prince’s 800-year-old arrival
The event at Chunghyodang drew approximately 800 attendees who spoke Korean, Vietnamese, and English.
koreaherald.com · 18 Oct
New glass frog discovered in Brazil’s Cerrado
The newly discovered Vitreorana micaelae measures only 2.2 to 2.6 centimeters in length.
ciclovivo.com.br · 19 Oct
Oldest Iberian dinosaur identified from single vertebra
The discovered vertebra dates back more than 220 million years to the Late Triassic epoch, making it the oldest dinosaur remain found on the Iberian Peninsula.
sci.news · 20 Oct
DNA from Medici ribs supports malaria diagnosis
Researchers recovered 185 pairs of DNA base sequences from Plasmodium falciparum and 43 from Plasmodium malariae in Francesco I de’ Medici’s ribs.
greenme.it · 17 Oct
Suleiman Mansour’s art reflected Palestinian life
Suleiman Mansour’s painting “Jamal al-mahamel” sold for approximately $257,000 at a Dubai auction in 2015, with proceeds supporting regional artists.
noonpost.com · 19 Oct
Treasure hunter’s patience yields coins from 1583 wreck
Peter Hughes found approximately 870 gold and silver coins on a beach in Wales after searching for 21 years.
adevarul.ro · 17 Oct
Poland’s Wawel castle explored with cosmic ray technology
The detector installed in the Dragon’s Den will help scientists create a density map of the hill’s interior, similar to a CT scan but using natural radiation.
polsatnews.pl · 16 Oct
Chinese names: hanzi improves gender prediction
The regression model achieved an R-squared value of 0.85, indicating a strong ability to predict gender from Hanzi names.
arxiv.org · 19 Oct
Ethiopia’s wheat production challenges Nigeria’s food imports
Ethiopia moved from importing one billion dollars’ worth of wheat annually to producing enough for domestic consumption, with surplus reaching Djibouti and Kenya.
fanamc.com · 19 Oct
Uzbekistan promotes Central Asia’s scientific history
The Islamic Civilization Center in Tashkent displays exhibits tracing more than 3,000 years of history on the territory of present-day Uzbekistan.
euronews.com · 16 Oct
New predator dinosaur discovered after century in museum
The Invictibellatrix amberina fossil sat in the Natural History Museum’s collection for almost 100 years before researchers recognized it as a new species.
scitechdaily.com · 16 Oct
Star’s remnants reveal unusual symmetry after samurai era explosion
The knots of gas surrounding the star are so large that ten of our solar systems could fit inside each one.
futurism.com · 18 Oct
Books explore economics, stadiums, literacy, and right-wing politics
J.C. Bradbury’s book is 440 pages long and examines publicly financed stadium projects.
capitalspectator.com · 17 Oct
Tatreez exhibition reclaims Palestinian identity through embroidery
Inaash, founded in 1969, has provided income and employment to displaced Palestinians through embroidery for over five decades.
freemalaysiatoday.com · 19 Oct
London installation features global Islamic call to prayer
The installation uses recordings of the adhan from different geographies, amplified through horn speakers.
middleeastmonitor.com · 17 Oct
Ötzi’s murder: analysis focuses on intent to kill
Ötzi lived over 5300 years ago, making him a uniquely studied mummy from the Copper Age.
tagesanzeiger.ch · 17 Oct
New dataset captures Brazilian Popular Music’s structure
The MPB Corpus contains symbolic annotations for 500 pieces of Brazilian Popular Music across four key musical parameters.
arxiv.org · 16 Oct
Lost Portuguese animation from 1931 to screen after fair find
Duarte Veloso purchased the film negative for just 25 euros at the Feira da Ladra flea market in Lisbon.
observador.pt · 16 Oct
Mughal portrait book sells for 21 times estimate
The book sold for £16,640, which is 20.8 times the auction house’s initial upper estimate of £800.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 19 Oct
New tyrannosaur species complicates dinosaur family history
Tromerosaurus solumons measured 8 meters in length and lived approximately 77 million years ago in Canada.
newscientist.com · 19 Oct
Julia Franck’s book illuminates Rilke’s relationship with artist
Julia Franck accessed original letters from the Fondation Bodmer archive to reconstruct the relationship between Rilke and Klossowska.
faz.net · 16 Oct
Polish family’s hidden treasure found after 80 years
Jan Glazewski’s father sketched the map to the buried treasure nearly 50 years after the family initially hid it in 1939.
adevarul.ro · 18 Oct
Sappho’s poetry helps readers understand desire
Anne Carson’s book Bitter-Sweet Eros draws on the work of Sappho, a Greek poet who lived two thousand years ago.
delo.si · 17 Oct
Acropolis museum restores ancient rider statue to original base
The statue, dating from 510 to 500 BC, was reconnected to its original ancient base after decades of being displayed on a different support constructed in the 1950s and 60s.
tovima.gr · 16 Oct
New bacterial species found in prostate cancer patients’ DNA
Researchers recovered 249 near-complete bacterial genomes from 194 prostate cancer patients, identifying 24 species not previously recorded.
medicalxpress.com · 19 Oct
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Cultures rate women’s faces more attractive than men’s
The meta-analysis compiled the largest-ever collection of data on facial attractiveness, with over 1.5 million individual face ratings.
smithsonianmag.com · 18 Oct
Children unearth lost building’s history in Northern Ireland
The excavation team uncovered evidence of a brick floor, potentially offering clues about the building’s original purpose.
bbc.co.uk · 17 Oct
Annemarie Heinrich captured Argentina’s stars in portraiture
Annemarie Heinrich’s archive in Argentina contains an estimated 130,000 photographic negatives and related documents.
buenosairesherald.com · 16 Oct
Northern refugees may have shaped biblical texts
Menahem son of Yawbanah, a northern scribe, left over a dozen seal impressions in and around Jerusalem.
biblicalarchaeology.org · 16 Oct
Shakespeare wrote most of “Edward III”, research finds
Computer analysis determined William Shakespeare wrote 63% of the lines in “Edward III”, while Christopher Marlowe contributed 26%.
gva.be · 18 Oct
French archaeologists unearth Roman burials beneath medieval garden
Archaeologists uncovered approximately 300 post-built structures across an area of 1200 square meters, indicating a substantial Roman settlement.
unian.net · 18 Oct
Horror films connect Australian and Indonesian filmmakers
The Australian horror film “Talk to Me” earned $92 million at the box office from a production budget of $4.5 million.
abc.net.au · 18 Oct
Clever Hans’ legacy: a horse shapes AI research
A study published in 2019 listed over 4000 scientific papers that connect “Clever Hans” and “Artificial Intelligence” in the Google Scholar database.
nzz.ch · 17 Oct
Pictorialism photography: from technical skill to fine art
F. Holland Day staged photographic interpretations of the Crucifixion in a series titled The Seven Last Words of Christ, acting as both director and photographer.
artcentron.com · 18 Oct
Artist recreates landscapes with microscopic life
Lee I-nam’s digital screen ‘Micro Landscape-Geumgang Inner Mountain’ measures 4.8 meters wide and is composed of magnified patterns created by moving microorganisms.
hankyung.com · 19 Oct
Sisters research history of Congolese sailors in Antwerp
The Mbuyi sisters believe the Congolese sailors who studied in Antwerp were the first members of the Congolese community in the city.
nieuwsblad.be · 17 Oct
Historians digitize Córdoba towns’ records to preserve heritage
The historians have created 30 digital archives and identified the founding dates for 16 towns in the Córdoba region of Argentina.
perfil.com · 18 Oct
Alaskan camp reveals life of ice age hunters
The Alaskan camp is almost 13,800 years old, offering a window into the lives of North America’s first people.
nu.nl · 17 Oct
Brains learn new languages by hearing sounds, not memorizing words
Researchers observed that skilled language learners process unfamiliar speech as acoustic signals, enabling them to overcome patterns from their native language.
aftonbladet.se · 18 Oct
Ancient arsinoe: excavations reveal details of Greek city
Archaeologists uncovered a square building with a courtyard at Ancient Arsinoe, revealing traces of renovations and multiple phases of use.
protothema.gr · 16 Oct
Teacher finds Viking artifact during school walk
The National Heritage Board described the Viking artifact as “extremely unusual” in Scandinavia.
expressen.se · 19 Oct
Medieval lead mining unearthed inequities in England
Researchers found lead concentrations as high as 69.1 parts per million in the tooth enamel of medieval people living near lead mines.
greenme.it · 19 Oct
New plant species named after Lionel Messi
The newly discovered Salvia messii plant grows at elevations between 2,000 and 2,400 meters in the Andes Mountains.
lanacion.com.ar · 18 Oct
Elif Shafak imagines the life of Gustave Flaubert
Elif Shafak's new book tells the story of Gustave Flaubert through the eyes of people and animals including his wet nurse, mother, and a camel.
delo.si · 19 Oct
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize while living with Parkinson’s
Anne Carson delivered the Robert Fagles Lecture at Princeton University while wearing boxing gloves, a practice she uses to help manage the effects of Parkinson’s disease.
smh.com.au · 17 Oct
Basque migrants’ handball court preserves north Queensland culture
The town of Trebonne once boasted two grocers, two bakers, a sawmill, a post office, a pub, a butcher, and its own petrol pump, all revolving around the Basque handball court.
abc.net.au · 17 Oct
New Kingdom horse burial found in Egypt
The horse dates to the New Kingdom, a period of ancient Egyptian history lasting from about 1550 to 1070 BC.
the-past.com · 17 Oct
Glasgow museum will display lost stained glass
Alf Webster created as many as 40 stained-glass windows across Scotland before dying at age 31 while serving with the Gordon Highlanders in Ypres.
bbc.co.uk · 16 Oct
Jo Van Gogh-bonger built Van Gogh’s legacy
Jo van Gogh-Bonger published a three-volume collection of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, now considered a vital work of art history.
time.com · 17 Oct
Johanna Bonger built Vincent van Gogh’s fame after his death
Johanna Bonger’s 1905 exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum displayed 484 of Vincent van Gogh’s works, making it the largest van Gogh show in history.
openculture.com · 16 Oct
Rosario’s literary critics built a world of their own
Podlubne’s book covers a period when Rosario was considered the center of intellectual formation in Argentina, according to Josefina Ludmer.
perfil.com · 18 Oct
Medieval England’s lead pollution harmed children’s health
Researchers found consistently high lead uptake in children buried in Castleton between 750 and 850 CE, indicating heavy pollution from mining and smelting.
thecooldown.com · 18 Oct
Novel reclaims voice of imprisoned character
Lilia Hassaine’s novel JE attempts to fill gaps in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by imagining the mechanisms that led to Bertha Mason’s imprisonment.
rtbf.be · 17 Oct
New mussel species discovered amidst rising threat to North America’s freshwater mussels
Five new freshwater mussel species were discovered after 20 years of field research in the southeastern United States.
goodgoodgood.co · 16 Oct
Researchers find likely trees, not Earhart’s plane
The object researchers investigated had been visible in photographs dating back to 1938.
bbc.co.uk · 19 Oct
Kaunas church reveals 300-year-old burials beneath its floors
Archaeologists found a man buried in a woolen zipun, a garment favored by nobility, with his hair and mustache still visible after 300 years.
lrt.lt · 16 Oct
Virginia Woolf’s writing echoes for women in Afghanistan
Virginia Woolf received an annual income of five hundred pounds from an inheritance, which, combined with access to books, allowed her to write A Room of One’s Own.
8am.media · 18 Oct
Viking Age skeletons reveal high levels of violence
Archaeologists uncovered remains of 12 individuals with violent injuries dating back 1500 years, spanning the Iron Age to the Viking period.
alquds.co.uk · 17 Oct
Dingoes prey on cats to protect Australian Wildlife
Analysis of dingo scat showed that feral cats comprise nearly 30 percent of the animals’ diet.
rp.pl · 17 Oct
Kate Faulkner emerges from William Morris’ shadow
Kate Faulkner designed the “Mallow” wallpaper in 1879, and it remains available for purchase through Morris & Co. today.
aawsat.com · 18 Oct
Pink diamond returns to France after century-old heist
The nine-carat “Grand Condé” diamond was concealed in a hollowed-out apple after being stolen from the Château de Chantilly in 1926.
bbc.co.uk · 17 Oct
Animals may have appeared 200 million years earlier than thought
Researchers analyzed over 140 microfossils from Mongolia to reach their conclusions about the timeline of animal evolution.
exame.com · 18 Oct
Vietnam and Switzerland find common ground in herbal medicine
Hanoi University of Pharmacy traces its origins to the Indochina Medical School, first led by Swiss physician Alexandre Yersin over a century ago.
news.tuoitre.vn · 18 Oct
Munyon’s paw-paw: historic elixir returns without THC
The original Munyon’s Paw-Paw from 1903 contained THC, a component removed from the modern recreation of the drink.
foxnews.com · 16 Oct
Shakespeare confirmed as principal author of Edward III
Computer analysis confirmed Shakespeare wrote the majority of Edward III, a play first published in 1596 and long suspected to include his work.
theguardian.com · 18 Oct
Manara adapts Eco’s “the name of the rose” into graphic novel
Milo Manara’s graphic novel adaptation features a portrait of Umberto Eco drawn by the artist on the very first page.
lanacion.com.ar · 18 Oct
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Film captures 1972 reunion of Harlem Renaissance figures
Photographer James Van Der Zee, known for his portraits of Harlem residents, was also a trained classical musician before turning to photography.
time.com · 16 Oct
Shadow puppetry revives memories on Cocos Islands
Sumardi spent nine years studying to become a master puppeteer, practicing for hours each day to perform wayang kulit.
abc.net.au · 16 Oct
Pompeii’s cats become photo book stars
The Pompeii Archaeological Park monitors a feline colony of between 40 and 50 cats living among the ruins.
euronews.com · 16 Oct
Archaeologists discover world’s oldest shipwreck off Turkish coast
Hakan Öniz from Akdeniz University investigated a shipwreck reported by local fishermen for several years.
politiken.dk · 16 Oct
Caricature shaped American views of Islam, 1880 to 1922
Between 1880 and 1922, American cartoons relied on a limited set of visual symbols, including the fez, turban, sword, and harem, to represent Islam and the East.
alquds.co.uk · 16 Oct
Pāyāḥ rituals reflect changing values in Nepal
Three of the eight Ajimā shrines established in the 8th century have been overtaken by a military headquarters, a palace complex, and a private hospitality property.
kathmandupost.com · 17 Oct
Sardinian village shows high rates of women living to 100
Women in Bolotana, Italy, have a nearly four times greater chance of living to 100 to 13.8%, compared to women in the United States.
scitechdaily.com · 16 Oct
Romans heated homes and baths with underfloor system
The pillars supporting the heated floors of a hypocaustum stood between 60 and 100 centimeters tall.
nationalgeographic.nl · 17 Oct
Egyptian resident unearths fragments of 8.5-meter statue
The discovered statue fragments may have originally stood 8.5 meters tall.
protothema.gr · 16 Oct
Elif Shafak reimagines Flaubert through women's eyes
Elif Shafak’s novel spans 608 pages and is priced at $34.99.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 16 Oct
Peruvian scientists discover rare light-colored Amazon fish
The discovered fish measured 11.3 centimeters in standard length.
andina.pe · 19 Oct
Families sold art to survive Holocaust, now seek return
Hansje Schülein sold ‘The Flag Bearer’ painting for 24,000 guilders in 1941, a sum her grandson believes was crucial to saving his father from Nazi arrest.
nos.nl · 19 Oct
From pot to loom: shared skills in cooking and dyeing
The blue pigment añil has been used in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times and became a significant international trade item during the colonial period.
elfinanciero.com.mx · 16 Oct
Photographer finds stellar patterns in father’s ashes
Innerstela photographs of microscopic remains cost $1600 plus taxes, but Gabriela Reyes Fuchs is seeking funding to make the service accessible to more people.
lanacion.com.ar · 19 Oct
Azerbaijani art and crafts displayed in Washington D.C.
The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum holds around 12,000 carpets and related items in its collection.
azertag.az · 17 Oct
Weigeltisaurids: first vertebrates to glide
Each wing of a Weigeltisaurid was supported by 25 to 30 slender bony rods.
advancedsciencenews.com · 19 Oct
Dogs discern speech patterns like humans do
The brains of both dogs and humans showed a specific response around 400 milliseconds after the start of each word when the words were structured by consonants.
origo.hu · 19 Oct
Burritos sustained villa’s army during Mexican Revolution
Blanco’s grandmother’s family supplied food to Pancho Villa’s troops during the Mexican Revolution, providing sustenance for an army fighting for social change.
longreads.com · 19 Oct
Istanbul’s Cihangir undergoes sensory changes with gentrification
Researchers combined structured walks with 26 Istanbul residents and additional walks with architects to map the changing sensory landscape of Cihangir.
frontiersin.org · 19 Oct
Ecuador park Guide identifies 82 Macrofungi Species
The guide details macrofungi representing six different taxonomic orders. Agaricales, Auriculariales, Boletales, Gomphales, Russulales, and Trechisporales, found in Quito’s Guangüiltagua Metropolitan Park.
telesurenglish.net · state media · 18 Oct
South Korea to display ancient Egyptian artifacts
The exhibition will display around 150 artifacts with a combined insured value of nearly $120 million.
koreatimes.co.kr · 18 Oct
Mariátegui’s “Amauta” magazine marked a century
“Amauta” magazine published 32 issues, spreading discussions about culture and politics across Latin America and into Europe.
perfil.com · 18 Oct
Makhathini links jazz to Bantu cosmology
Makhathini’s son, Thingo, produced his latest album, shaping its entire vision.
lrt.lt · 16 Oct
AI aids effort to revive extinct dodo bird
Colossal Biosciences has completed 95 percent of the dodo’s genome reconstruction.
rp.pl · 16 Oct
Archaeologists re-examine Nantucket shipwreck’s origins
The newly discovered shipwreck fragment measures 50 feet long and 11 feet wide, making it unusually large for wreckage found on the Massachusetts coastline.
foxnews.com · 16 Oct
Estonian Art Museum exhibits post-Soviet transition
The exhibition features works created over a 30-year period, beginning after Estonia regained independence.
news.err.ee · 19 Oct
Chagall museum in nice reveals artist’s hidden visions
The Musée Marc Chagall in Nice now welcomes approximately 200,000 visitors each year.
ilfattoquotidiano.it · 18 Oct
Researchers find AI fails strict Turing test design
Participants correctly identified the GPT-4-Turbo AI as a machine 97% of the time in the researchers’ experiment.
techxplore.com · 16 Oct
Botticelli’s paintings may reveal muse’s illness
Botticelli requested to be buried near Simonetta Cattaneo in the Florentine church of Ognissanti, 1510, demonstrating his devotion to the subject of his art.
klix.ba · 17 Oct
“Kanlungan” composer Rom Dongeto shaped protest music
Rom Dongeto wrote “Kanlungan” in just two days, a song that would become one of the most beloved Filipino songs of all time.
rappler.com · 17 Oct
Korean novelist finds global success after years of rejection
“The Rainfall Market” has been published in more than 20 countries and ranked as the third-bestselling physical book in South Korea within one month of its release.
dw.com · 19 Oct
Foucault’s writings illuminate early Iranian revolution
Michel Foucault wrote about the Iranian uprising in a series of articles published in Le Monde between September 1978 and February 1979.
lemonde.fr · 18 Oct
Greece launches “daedalus” supercomputer
The new supercomputer will allow for the processing of large volumes of data and the exploration of problems requiring immense computational power.
protothema.gr · 19 Oct
Fossil reveals early bird species could not fly
The Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis fossil weighed approximately 821 grams (1.8 pounds) despite having wings one-third shorter than its hindlimbs.
colombiaone.com · 16 Oct
Hungarian researchers document Central Asian glacier loss, threatening water supply
Researchers determined that the water level of Lilly Lake, discovered by Prinz in 1909, has decreased by at least two meters since his visit.
origo.hu · 19 Oct
Hollar’s drawings document travel through war-torn Prague
Wenceslaus Hollar created his drawings and diary 390 years ago, providing a contemporary record of travel during the Thirty Years’ War.
idnes.cz · 17 Oct
Zubaida Khanum’s songs echo through Pakistan’s film history
Zubaida Khanum recorded approximately 250 songs, primarily in Urdu and Punjabi, during her career as a playback singer.
tribune.com.pk · 19 Oct
Biography of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan endures despite criticism
Dr. Shams Badauni’s book compiles 125 years of reviews on Hayaat-i-Javed, offering new insight into Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s biography.
dawn.com · 19 Oct
Syrian research prioritizes community voices & justice
The research explicitly connects the under-ascertainment of mortality rates among Syrian IDPs to colonial legacies in data collection, demonstrating how power imbalances can literally erase people from official records.
doi.org · 18 Oct
Hybrid images blend faces using Fourier analysis
The Fast Fourier Transform, used to create hybrid images, is so important that “we definitely would not have cell phones, satellites, internet, or electronics anywhere near as small as we do without” it.
jeremykun.com · 18 Oct
Chip industry defines modern global civilization
Nvidia’s stock alone accounted for approximately fifteen cents of every dollar returned by the S. & P. 500 last year.
newyorker.com · 19 Oct
Jakarta’s villages face displacement amid heritage projects
Between 2013 and 2018, Jakarta saw increased evictions of urban villages, prompting the growth of grassroots heritage movements.
doi.org · 18 Oct
Migrant ancestry drives US technology adoption and growth
Over half of U.S. technologies, 54%, rely on at least one idea originating from another country.
nber.org · 19 Oct
Iraq unearths 1,200-year-old site from Islamic Golden Age
The newly discovered site dates back to the Abbasid era, a period of Iraqi history 1,200 years ago marked by cultural and architectural advancement.
iraqinews.com · 19 Oct
Flemish sculptors shaped Italian art for popes and kings
The exhibition at Museum M Leuven includes works by Flemish sculptors who were popular with Italian popes and kings in the 16th century.
vrtnws.be · 18 Oct
Sick whales receive more social support
Researchers tracked a population of northern bottlenose whales for 37 years, identifying individuals through markings on their fins.
newscientist.com · 19 Oct
Terracotta army built by diverse workforce, research suggests
Fingerprint analysis revealed the Terracotta Army may have been built by people of varying ages, suggesting children participated in its construction.
nu.nl · 19 Oct
Places hold memories: photographer explores enduring sites
Aurélien Villette travelled over 2,500 kilometers by motorbike across Cambodia to photograph remote sites and capture the light at specific moments.
futura-sciences.com · 18 Oct
Extinct Dokdo sea lion skeleton reconstructed for Seoul display
Researchers used 41 authentic bone fragments alongside 3D-printed replicas to rebuild the skeleton of the extinct Dokdo sea lion.
koreatimes.co.kr · 19 Oct
Students in Brazil trace ancestry to African empires
All students participating in the Origens project showed genetic ancestry connected to the Gold Coast and Slave Coast areas of West Africa.
africanarguments.org · 13 Oct
Caral civilization adapted to Peru’s landscape 5,000 years ago
Archaeologists working at Caral have identified 12 urban centers that reveal details about the civilization’s life.
telesurenglish.net · state media · 13 Oct
Sri lankan and Indian cobras share African origins
Genetic analysis revealed that Sri Lankan cobras form a unique genetic lineage, separate from the cobra populations found on the Indian mainland.
mongabay.co.id · 15 Oct
Ukrainka’s work shaped by illness and war
Mavka. The Forest Song, a 3D animated feature based on Lesya Ukrainka’s play, reached theaters in 148 countries after its production continued despite the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
disabled-world.com · 15 Oct
Poetry book revives Asia’s only Spanish creole
The anthology features 23 poems written in Chabacano by 10 different authors from the Philippines.
globalvoices.org · 13 Oct
Film preserves Western Armenian language and unites diaspora
The film Dzhvzhig became the first ever produced entirely in Western Armenian, a language facing extinction after the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
hetq.am · 14 Oct
Japanese animation reimagines Bosch’s surreal Garden
Yōji Kuri’s 1972 film “The Midnight Parasites” adapts the imagery of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.
openculture.com · 15 Oct
Book links Nuremberg prosecutor to legal evolution
The book details how Benjamin Ferencz arrived on Omaha Beach amidst a summer thunderstorm, with soldiers trudging through “wet, brown earth splattering from the tires”, foreshadowing the challenges of investigating Nazi atrocities.
opiniojuris.org · 13 Oct
Henry VIII’s enforcer secretly saved Catholic book
Approximately 65 copies of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ remain today, demonstrating its original popularity and the efforts to preserve it during the Reformation.
scitechdaily.com · 16 Oct
Shiva’s rise reflects modern Tamil identity politics
Maraimalai Adigal, a key figure in the Neo-Shaivite movement, claimed the existence of Tamil Vedas that were lost in ancient tsunamis, demonstrating the effort to establish a unique Tamil religious tradition.
indianexpress.com · 13 Oct
Ming dynasty statue returns to China from Australia
The bronze buddha statue, discovered in 2018, dates back to the Ming dynasty, a period of Chinese rule from 1368 to 1644.
abc.net.au · 13 Oct
Viola’s journey from rural roots to city stages
Luiz Antonio Guerra’s book, Uma sociologia da viola caipira, won the Prêmio Silvio Romero, the Prêmio Capes 2022, and the Prêmio Destaque USP 2022.
revistapesquisa.fapesp.br · 13 Oct
Archaeologists preserve Silk Road relics through joint work
Chinese experts are monitoring a test wall built with local materials, more than ten kilometers from the Ak-Beshim site in Kyrgyzstan.
open.kg · 14 Oct
Ancient sheep pox virus found in medieval texts
Researchers identified 21 ancient genomes of the sheep pox virus preserved in medieval parchment.
sciencesetavenir.fr · 14 Oct
Oldest known shipwreck discovered off Turkish coast
Archaeologists found remnants inside the amphorae, with Dr. Karin Sovada saying she "almost fainted" when she saw how much material remained after thousands of years underwater.
vijesti.me · 14 Oct
Ancient accounting tool prefigures modern records in Peru
The exhibit included records from a legal dispute over “five soles” that lasted from 1898, demonstrating the need for a formal registration system to prevent prolonged legal battles.
andina.pe · 15 Oct
Golan discovery reveals Byzantine synagogue
Researchers identified more than 150 architectural fragments during the excavation, including decorated basalt stones.
biblicalarchaeology.org · 14 Oct
Australia’s first novels emerge from colonial past
Only three copies of the original 1830-1831 printing of Quintus Servinton are known to survive today.
theconversation.com · 14 Oct
Dadaab camp reveals long history of settlement
Siddiqi interviewed hundreds of people, including residents of Dadaab, during 14 years of research for her book.
africasacountry.com · 15 Oct
AGO exhibition traces Black style from resistance to runway
The exhibition features over 150 historical and high-fashion garments, alongside contemporary art and photographs.
theglobeandmail.com · 15 Oct
Kazakh scientists study ancient silver headdress
The ancient silver headdress is composed of approximately 97% silver, according to preliminary findings.
azertag.az · 15 Oct
First Nations art exhibition opens in Paris
The exhibition features a six-metre house pole carved by James Hart in 2006 from a single red cedar tree sourced from British Columbia.
theglobeandmail.com · 15 Oct
Broken art reveals enduring beauty in Florence
The exhibition features artworks spanning five thousand years of art history, focusing on what is missing from each piece.
europe.repubblica.it · 14 Oct
Art forgery and theft fuel global auctions
Six million people visit France annually to see the Mona Lisa, a painting the artist Leonardo da Vinci carried with him to Paris and never showed to the woman it depicted.
alquds.co.uk · 14 Oct
New dates refine understanding of early Māori society
Researchers determined the Waihemo site was occupied repeatedly for 120 years, between 1320 and 1440.
theconversation.com · 14 Oct
Mozart’s first biography opposed genius concept
Tomáš Hlobil’s research is based on a complex collection of sources, including lecture transcripts, a challenging type of historical document.
faz.net · 15 Oct
Ancient elephant tooth reveals 700,000-year-old ecosystem
Researchers analysed a tooth to reveal a landscape with consistent water sources and diverse plant life dating back 700,000 years.
scitechdaily.com · 14 Oct
First text read from ancient scroll after 2000 years
Erwin Nieuwlaar identified ten readable letters within a four-square-centimeter section of the PHerc. 343 scroll.
scrollprize.substack.com · 15 Oct
Tree rings reveal Indigenous shaping of North America
Omer Stewart’s research in the 1930s documented how Indigenous communities used fire to maintain oak orchards and attract bison to fresh grasslands.
longreads.com · 15 Oct
Vietnam readily accepts Chinese culture due to shared history
Job postings seeking Chinese speakers in Vietnam reached nearly 13,000 in 2025, a 49% increase from 2024.
asiatimes.com · 15 Oct
Armenian bishop traveled through Tirol in 1293
The discovered documents date back to May and June of 1293, revealing the bishop’s activity during a specific timeframe.
derstandard.at · 13 Oct
Cobras’ genetic history links Sri Lanka to Africa
Researchers examined 67 individual cobras using nine genetic markers to investigate the evolutionary history of the species.
news.mongabay.com · 13 Oct
Ancient Japanese survived major volcanic eruption through migration
The Kikai-Akahoya eruption registered a seven on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, which ranges to eight, indicating an extremely powerful blast.
nautil.us · 15 Oct
New dinosaur discovery reveals megaraptor migration to Europe
The newly discovered Invictibellatrix amberina was only 10 to 13 feet long, meaning it would have been more dangerous to humans than a T. rex.
nautil.us · 14 Oct
Lion tracks reveal ancient African coastline
The San trackers identified lion tracks suggesting a lion was crouched, preparing to pounce, at a site in the De Hoop Nature Reserve.
theconversation.com · 15 Oct
Ancient skeleton’s pose puzzles German archaeologists
The excavation team documented around 150 features of the Linear Pottery culture settlement after five weeks of work.
euronews.com · 14 Oct
Ecuador’s “superplants” offer food security and climate resilience
Nina Duarte has identified 450 species of non-conventional food plants in Ecuador’s Chocó Andino region and established 25 polyculture plots to promote their cultivation.
es.mongabay.com · 13 Oct
Neanderthal man died from lance wound in Iraq
Researchers found a 15-millimeter-wide puncture wound on a Neanderthal’s shoulder blade, providing the earliest evidence of Neanderthals using wooden, pointed lances as weapons.
sciencesetavenir.fr · 15 Oct
Typo misdated first tech disruption from solar storm
Researchers discovered the original report cited a train delay in 1841, but the rail line wasn't completed until 1846.
newatlas.com · 16 Oct
Fez opens Museum of Moroccan Jewish heritage
The museum displays objects spanning 2,500 years of Jewish presence in Morocco, documenting a long history of cultural exchange.
en.le360.ma · state media · 13 Oct
Neanderthal remains suggest death by wooden spear
Researchers found a Neanderthal with a circular hole in his shoulder blade, and believe it was made by a weapon around 75,000 years ago.
abc.net.au · 15 Oct
Ancient shrimp thrive in dark caves of Indonesia
Stenasellus javanicus, a species of ancient shrimp, was first discovered in Java, Indonesia in 2004 during an exploration of the Cikarai Cave.
mongabay.co.id · 14 Oct
Israel returns antiquities to Greece for the first time
Israel returned a total of twenty-two antiquities to Greece, including fifteen Attic vases and six Corinthian vases.
tovima.gr · 14 Oct
Cave in Germany reveals early symbolic thought
Artifacts discovered in Hohle Fels cave date back as far as 43,000 years, making them some of the oldest known examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
aeon.co · 15 Oct
Caral dig unearths 3,000-year-old clay figures
The discovered clay figures date back as far as 3000 BC, offering a glimpse into the beliefs of the ancient Caral civilization.
andina.pe · 13 Oct
Photographer preserved vanishing everyday architecture
Johnston could capture as many as fifteen good negatives of a single structure in a day, demonstrating her methodical approach to documenting buildings.
daily.jstor.org · 14 Oct
New long-clawed dinosaur species found in England
The newly discovered dinosaur’s claws could have grown between 10 and 20 centimeters long.
elnacional.com · 14 Oct
Avar people’s history uncovered by DNA analysis
Scientists examined DNA from grave sites in Mödling and Leobersdorf to understand the Avar people’s history.
derstandard.at · 14 Oct
Tagore connected Russell’s work to ancient verse
Rabindranath Tagore became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, receiving the award for his translated poetry collection Gitanjali (Song Offerings).
hindustantimes.com · 13 Oct
Pediatrician advocates for recognition of African-based traditional medicine
Kota Mulangi stated that she “became a better pediatrician from the moment she became a macota.”
brasildefato.com.br · 13 Oct
Sounds of nature brought Macondo to life in ‘one hundred years of solitude’
The production team gathered over 30 gigabytes of recordings, including sounds from approximately 95 bird species and five amphibians/reptiles.
es.mongabay.com · 13 Oct
Paris archaeologists find wall linking to Caesar’s Gallic Wars
Radiocarbon dating suggests wooden elements of the wall originate from between 200 B.C. and 10 B.C.
foxnews.com · 13 Oct
New York presentation shares Azerbaijani history of Iravan
Professor Farida Safiyeva is the author of 13 books and over 90 scientific articles, with this latest publication building on two previous works about Iravan.
azertag.az · 14 Oct
New dinosaur species discovered after century in museum
The newly discovered Invictibellatrix amberina had claws potentially reaching 20 centimeters long.
sciencedaily.com · 14 Oct
Indigenous youth build livelihoods & protect culture
Mommon Makko’s project participants planted 200 indigenous trees in a Tanzanian dryland area to help restore the land and support livestock grazing.
culturalsurvival.org · 13 Oct
Social sciences developed through French National surveys
Frédéric Le Play began his studies of workers while at the École polytechnique in 1827, involving his students and colleagues in research across French departments.
lemonde.fr · 14 Oct
Congo Basin warming confirmed by rescued records
Researchers digitised over one million weather observations from handwritten records spanning 1908 to 2023 to study climate change in the Congo Basin.
e360.yale.edu · 13 Oct
Researchers decode 80-year-old encrypted telegram
Researchers used an artificial intelligence model to decode a telegram that had remained encrypted for more than 80 years.
delo.si · 15 Oct
Archaeologists find Roman aqueduct linked to Ambiorix
The discovered Roman aqueduct dates back to 68 AD and is described as exceptionally well-preserved.
vrtnws.be · 13 Oct
Turner’s Rome painting returns to Italy before auction
The painting is estimated to sell for 50 million pounds, which would make it the most valuable artwork ever exhibited for auction in Italy.
welt.de · 13 Oct
Dinosaur discovery in Zimbabwe reveals unique African ecosystem
The newly discovered Musango matusadonaensis weighed 220 kilograms and walked on two legs.
sciencedaily.com · 13 Oct
Sculptor dedicates half century to Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia
Sotoo Etsurō became chief sculptor of the Sagrada Familia in 2012 after working under yearly contracts for 35 years.
nippon.com · 15 Oct
English learners prioritise sounds over grammar
Accomplished English learners processed unfamiliar words similarly to non-speech sounds, relying less on brain networks used for their first language.
indianexpress.com · 16 Oct
Ramesses II statue fragments unearthed in Egypt
The discovered head of Ramesses II measures approximately 1.6 meters tall.
rp.pl · 15 Oct
Novel tells story of Kawésqar people of Patagonia
The Kawésqar population of Patagonia decreased from 4,000 people in the 19th century to approximately 100 by 1930.
lalibre.be · 15 Oct
Historic photograph to receive memorial in Paris
The filmmakers used 3D scanning and archival work to pinpoint the location of the historic photograph after nearly 200 years.
dn.se · 14 Oct
Colombian guan may become unique species
Researchers analyzed 1,471 photographs and 222 recordings to identify differences between the ‘Colombian’ guan and related species.
colombiaone.com · 16 Oct
French castle reveals hidden church and graves
Archaeologists discovered nearly fifteen burials beneath the castle, with more potentially remaining in the church's choir and nave.
futura-sciences.com · 15 Oct
Norway: archaeologists find possibly oldest anchor
The recovered stone anchor weighs over 30 kilograms and displays a complete circular groove.
derstandard.at · 13 Oct
New dinosaur species identified from forgotten skull
The invictibellatrix amberina had claws that grew to 20 centimeters long.
index.hu · 14 Oct
Skilled linguists hear new languages as sound, not words
Researchers found that skilled linguists relied less on the brain’s left sensorimotor system, involved in language processing, when processing foreign-language sounds, instead showing brain activity similar to that used for non-speech sounds.
theguardian.com · 13 Oct
Lithuanian songs appeared in European music before čiurlionis
Liudvikas Rėza published a bilingual collection of 15 Lithuanian songs with a German translation in 1799, alongside Wilhelmas Jensenas.
lrt.lt · 14 Oct
Neanderthal’s fatal wound suggests possible murder in Iraq
A Neanderthal’s shoulder blade contained a 1.5-centimeter hole caused by a wooden spear, potentially making it the oldest evidence of a human ancestor killed by this type of weapon.
unn.ua · 15 Oct
Titanoboa: Colombian fossils reveal largest known snake
The discovered Titanoboa fossils included remains from 29 individual snakes, providing ample evidence for describing the new species.
colombiaone.com · 13 Oct
Oaxaca potters carry centuries-old tradition
Adrián Martínez Alarcón learned the art of pottery from his mother, Ana María Hernández, and is now a seventh-generation ceramicist in Santa María Atzompa.
mexiconewsdaily.com · 13 Oct
New dinosaur species, Invictibellatrix, identified in England
The newly identified Invictibellatrix amberina was between three and four meters long, about the height of an average person.
vijesti.me · 14 Oct
Kuomintang building in Sydney reveals Australia’s early Asia ties
The KMT building in Sydney connected Chinese Australians to political networks spanning Hong Kong, Japan, San Francisco, Vancouver, and the Pearl River Delta as early as the 1920s.
theconversation.com · 15 Oct
Jharkhand’s Mandar drum receives GI tag for craftsmanship
Artisans in Jarjatta village applied for the GI tag for the Mandar drum in September 2021, drawing attention to the traditional methods used to create it.
thebetterindia.com · 13 Oct
Nepal’s transformation shaped by local voices
Since 1994, anthropologist Sara Shneiderman has returned to Nepal repeatedly to study communities and witness the country’s political transformation.
kathmandupost.com · 15 Oct
Portuguese language expands to digital territory
The Portuguese language is currently spoken by over 280 million people across four continents, according to the CPLP.
observador.pt · 14 Oct
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Maastricht dig reveals clues to Netherlands’ first inhabitants
The researchers discovered remnants of stone tool production in the drilled samples, suggesting ongoing activity at the site.
nrc.nl · 14 Oct
Mexican artists revive Indigenous languages through rap
The Indigenous Hip Hop Festival featured artists rapping in at least three Indigenous languages: Zapotec, Mayan, and Mazatec.
telesurenglish.net · state media · 14 Oct
New book celebrates poet’s anticolonial voice
Each year since São Tomé and Príncipe gained independence, a woman has recited “Trindade,” a poem by Espírito Santo that commemorates the 1953 Batepáde Massacre.
rtp.pt · 15 Oct
Bolivia confirms new wild cat species after century
The scientific team first identified the new feline species in September, publishing their findings in the journal Current Biology.
telesurenglish.net · state media · 15 Oct
Busoga Kingdom anthem’s composer reflects on his work
Arthur Musulube received the Eninha ya Kiira medal in 2019 for his contribution to preserving Busoga’s identity through music.
monitor.co.ug · 13 Oct
Frescoes by Giotto in Florence chapel reveal detail after restoration
Giotto painted the frescoes in the Bardi Chapel between 1317 and 1325, and they remained unrestored for nearly 70 years before this recent project.
jornada.com.mx · 14 Oct
CBD discovery fueled cannabis research growth
The number of cannabis products authorized by the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) increased from 850 in 2015 to nearly 195,000 in 2025.
revistapesquisa.fapesp.br · 13 Oct
Taiwan revives tea industry with climate adaptations
Storm intensity in the Shenkeng region increased by 12 to 15 percent, and category 4 and 5 storms doubled or tripled in frequency this century.
news.mongabay.com · 13 Oct
Prague recovers sculpture stolen nearly two decades ago
The new bronze sculpture weighs over 300 kilograms and was recreated from photographs and a small surviving model.
expats.cz · 13 Oct
LLMs struggle with North Korean culture and knowledge
The LENS benchmark included 1,765 questions to assess large language models' understanding of North Korean language, society, and knowledge.
arxiv.org · 15 Oct
Poe foresaw Space travel with scientific detail
Poe’s 46-page story dedicates 43 pages to preparations and the voyage, only arriving at the Moon on page 43.
bigthink.com · 14 Oct
Ramses II statue unearthed after man finds stone in Egypt
The discovered statue of Ramses II may have originally reached a height of approximately 8.5 meters, including its base.
hotnews.ro · 15 Oct
Restorers maintain centuries-old mummies in Brno catacomb
Over 35,000 tourists visit the Brno Capuchin Crypt each year.
novinky.cz · 13 Oct
Neanderthal skeleton reveals violence and care
The Neanderthal Shanidar A lived to approximately 45 years old, a relatively long life for their species, despite suffering a fractured jaw and a spear wound.
newscientist.com · 15 Oct
New predatory dinosaur species found in UK changes view of origins
The Invictibellatrix amberina’s claws could have grown to be 10 to 20 centimeters long.
sci.news · 14 Oct
New blind centipede found over half a mile underground
Researchers found a Geophilus hadesi centipede at a depth of 1,100 meters, marking the deepest known record for any member of the centipede class, Chilopoda.
mongabay.co.id · 14 Oct
Ancient observatory confirmed outside Mayan area
The observatory in Teteles de Ávila Castillo, Puebla is more than 2,500 years old, making it the oldest pre-Hispanic astronomical observatory found outside the Mayan area.
jornada.com.mx · 14 Oct
AI restores lost birdsong in Argentina
One Rufous-collared Sparrow began to sing the recreated song fragments within three months of hearing the AI-generated melody.
rp.pl · 13 Oct
Miguel Dávila’s centennial exhibition reveals artistic evolution
The exhibition features over 2,000 works by Miguel Dávila, spanning his career from 1949 to 2009.
perfil.com · 14 Oct
Turkey’s health campaigns shift visual language over time
The analysis included over 200 visual materials from both the tuberculosis and COVID-19 eras in Turkey.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 13 Oct
Foucault’s unreleased writings appear on his centenary
Michel Foucault’s “La Place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne” contains notes from a course he taught from 1966 to 1967 and totals 324 pages.
lemonde.fr · 15 Oct
Fossil shows early bird evolved for land life
The Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis fossil weighed approximately 821 grams, and its forearms were about one-third the length of its hind legs.
yna.co.kr · 14 Oct
Vietnam construction reveals Tran Dynasty relics
The discovery covered an area of about 3 square meters, revealing artifacts dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries.
news.tuoitre.vn · 13 Oct
Women’s economic roles went unrecognised since prehistory
Bateman’s book details women’s economic contributions across all civilizations, dating back to the Paleolithic era.
lemonde.fr · 15 Oct
Australia returns 12,000-year-old artifact to Jordan
The returned artifact dates back to approximately 12,000 BC, making it one of the oldest known components of a large-scale sculpture.
en.ammonnews.net · 13 Oct
Novelist Natsume Sōseki explored teaching and self-discovery
Natsume Sōseki’s image was featured on the 1,000 yen bill in Japan, demonstrating his cultural importance.
elpais.com · 15 Oct
Arafsa’s history reflects shifting populations in Armenia
Records indicate Arafsa had 288 inhabitants in 1912, and all were ancestors of present-day Azerbaijanis.
report.az · 13 Oct
Ancient crocodile relative reveals diverse Jurassic ecosystem
Ctenosuchus tenuidens lived 170 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs, as evidenced by the age of the fossils found in Morocco.
independent.co.uk · 13 Oct
Clothing boosts confidence for Bangladeshi students
Psychological factors, social influence, and beliefs about appearance explained 39.4% of the variation in self-expression confidence among the students.
frontiersin.org · 13 Oct
Ambroise Paré advances modern surgery
Ambroise Paré designed some of the first advanced articulated prosthetic limbs, including arms and legs made of iron with gear systems.
lavanguardia.com · 16 Oct
Artis zoo integrates art to recreate deep sea sounds
Olafur Eliasson’s installation Deep Seeing Currents features a sound composition made entirely from authentic recordings from the deep sea.
groene.nl · 13 Oct
Portuguese scientists discover 298 million-year-old insect nymph fossil
The fossilized nymph measures about 10 millimeters long and includes fragments of legs, eight visible segments, and short cerci.
observador.pt · 14 Oct
Dogs show preference for shapes like humans do
Researchers tracked the gazes of 51 dogs during the experiment using artificial intelligence.
nautil.us · 15 Oct
Morocco opens first state-funded Jewish Culture museum
The museum houses a collection spanning 2,500 years of Jewish life in Morocco.
jpost.com · 14 Oct
New armored fish species reveals evolutionary shift in ancient China
The newly discovered Asioaspis brachyotus had a headshield measuring 4.7 to 6 centimeters in maximum length.
sci.news · 13 Oct
Elif şafak’s novel reimagines Istanbul through many voices
Şafak incorporates 30 different narrators into her new novel, including both people and non-human entities like plants and diseases.
vijesti.me · 14 Oct
Korean singing dataset includes detailed vocal expression labels
The Gugak-VocalSet dataset contains approximately 68,000 audio segments labeled with details about Korean vocal expression.
arxiv.org · 15 Oct
Assam artisan builds livelihoods From bamboo crafts
Prabhat Saikia’s unit in Assam provides work for approximately 20 young artisans.
thelogicalindian.com · 14 Oct
Ancient Egyptian statue surfaces in Nile Delta
The discovered statues measure 8.5 meters long, suggesting they belonged to a pharaoh of considerable importance.
israelhayom.co.il · 14 Oct
Soviet artists illustrated The Hobbit with a unique style
The 1976 Russian edition of The Hobbit featured illustrations that contrasted with Tolkien’s own artwork, using a more stylized and cartoonish approach.
openculture.com · 14 Oct
Wikipedia’s vast archive may not unite us
Wikipedia contains over 68 million articles in more than 300 languages, making it the largest collection of information ever created.
crikey.com.au · 13 Oct
Ancient giant fossil challenges plant and fungi categories
Prototaxites could grow to over 7.5 meters, towering over the low-lying vegetation of Earth 400 million years ago.
futura-sciences.com · 15 Oct
Jurassic predator’s anatomy links to human brain development
Megacauda sungei weighed approximately 4.4 pounds, making it unusually large for a Jurassic mammaliaform, early mammal relatives, which typically weighed only a few grams.
sciencedaily.com · 13 Oct
Kolkata artist builds Durga from 13,000 recycled pens
The sculpture required approximately 13,000 recycled pens and an equal number of refills to construct.
thelogicalindian.com · 13 Oct
Luxembourg museum displays rare impressionist collection
The exhibition features works by all the major Impressionist painters, including pieces from artists like Renoir, Monet, Degas, and Pissarro.
lequotidien.lu · 13 Oct
Darius i’s inscription links biblical texts to Persian rule
Darius I’s inscription was carved in three languages onto a cliff face in Iran, serving as a key to understanding ancient texts.
israelhayom.co.il · 15 Oct
Bats evolved in Europe 65 million years ago
The researchers analysed genomes from 103 bat species, representing all 21 recognised bat families, to reach their conclusions.
ansa.it · 14 Oct
Film connects Senegalese religious leader to railway history
The film “7e Gare” will premiere on October 17, 2026, and be followed by a panel discussion on the future of Senegal’s railways.
senego.com · 13 Oct
Mongol empire’s “yam” system enabled rapid communication
The Yam system allowed Mongol messengers to travel between 200 and 300 kilometers each day, delivering military orders and administrative reports with unprecedented speed for the era.
adevarul.ro · 13 Oct
Historians debate Katib’s place in Afghan history
Ali Amiri’s introduction to the new edition of Tazkirat al-Inqilab claims Katib revived rationalist historiography, a claim the author finds unsupported by evidence in the text.
8am.media · 13 Oct
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