Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had ever found in Navarre, the region of northern Spain whose capital is Pamplona, was a single bone of the people themselves. On Monday that changed, [β¦]
On a patch of bare rock in western Malta, roughly 80 by 100 metres (260 by 330 feet), dozens of parallel grooves cross, overlap and merge into one another. The spot, MisraΔ§ GΔ§ar il-Kbir, is popularly known as Clapham Junction, after the busy railway junction in London. It is far from the only place like [β¦]
About 2,200 years ago, someone pressed a finger into a lump of damp clay to stick down the flap of a suit of armour. The kiln sealed that print, and it has survived intact ever since. Now a team from the museum at the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and from Shandong University has used [β¦]
In November 1983, the Soviet Union came to believe that NATO might be preparing a nuclear attack. The trigger was a war game. The allianceβs annual exercise, Able Archer 83, ran from 7 to 11 November and rehearsed what would happen if a conflict in Europe escalated until nuclear weapons were released. It even simulated [β¦]
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