History

Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could be skilled beast hunters

A massive digitization project has nearly doubled the known extent of the first continent-scale road network

Door-building spiders; a new quantum liquid

Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library

Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Friday after two drones crashed into the area

The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic

A snippet of text from Homer’s famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process

Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth Day

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a polybolos

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists. But new research suggests otherwise

Synchronous fireflies; Grand Canyon fossil footprints