Scientists are studying how certain microbes are damaging the world’s ancient monuments. “Whether it’s Angkor Wat or the Mayan sites in Mexico or the Native American archaeological sites in the West in this country, they are all under threat. And the question is, can we preserve them?” said biologist Ralph Mitchell of Harvard University. Warming […]

Marcelo O. Magnasco of Rockefeller University in New York, and Constantino Baikouzis of the Astronomical Observatory in La Plata, Argentina, scoured The Odyssey for astronomical clues to come up with the date of April 16, 1178 B.C. for Odysseus’ homecoming. “It still does not prove the historicity of the return of Odysseus. It only proves […]