For most of human history, the story of cosmic catastrophe has been told in craters: scars like Chicxulub that mark where asteroids slammed into the planet and rewrote the rules of life. A growing ...
Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...
The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...