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Chicago is a beer town, and perhaps no part of the city slugs suds like the southwest side. Seven nights a week, crowds flock to a three-mile strip of Western Avenue in the neighborhood of Beverly where restaurants and Irish pubs — emphasis on the pubs — dot every block. There’s beer and Irish whiskey […]
Enlarge / The Cambodian city of Angkor was once the largest in the world until vast swathes of the population decamped in the 15th century. Its famous temple, Angkor Wat (above), survived. (credit: Stefan Irvine/LightRocket/Getty Images) The Cambodian city of Angkor was once the largest in the world… then the vast majority of its inhabitants […]
Connoisseurs say that the taste of cheese improves with age – but what if it was left to age for 3,200 years? Archaeologists in Egypt now have the chance to find out, but it comes with an unexpected bonus: deadly ancient bacteria. A team from the University of Catania in Italy found the cheese at […]
Enlarge / Chaco Canyon ruins in New Mexico. (credit: Erik Terdal / Flickr) Lots of macaw parrot skeletons and feathers have turned up at human settlements in the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico dating back to at least 900 CE. Given that these sites are at least 1,000 kilometers north of the bird’s natural range, […]
Enlarge / Artist’s reconstruction of the east and west mounds at Çatalhöyük. In the foreground, you can see the newer west mound, with the older east mound decaying in the background. (credit: Çatalhöyük Research Project) Around 8,200 years ago, melting glaciers poured fresh, cold water into the North Atlantic, causing the climate in Europe and […]
Enlarge (credit: Bernard Gagnon via Wikimedia Commons) By combining old and new aerial images, archaeologists are getting a new look at the complexities of supplying water to an ancient desert city. In northern Jordan, along a wadi once called the Golden River, the ancient city of Jerash sits uneasily alongside its modern namesake. With its […]
The royal wedding of Meghan Markle, 36, and Prince Harry, 33, will take place on 19 May 2018 at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, and it is believed Meghan is privately preparing herself for the big day. While marrying a member of the royal family will no doubt be stressful, Meghan is said to […]
– The latest addition to Hyundai’s lineup in the United States, the Kona is not only the automaker’s first foray into the popular subcompact-crossover segment but also its first crossover in recent history to be named after a locale that’s not in the American Southwest. While the larger Tucson and even larger Santa Fe models evoke visions […]
A pregnant woman who underwent skull surgery in medieval Italy gave birth after she died, according to a team of scientists who examined the ancient remains. The case was identified by researchers as coffin birth – a phenomenon that occurs when a deceased pregnant woman’s fetus is expelled within the grave. Known as postmortem fetal […]
Enlarge / Inside of the Vindija Cave, Croatia. (credit: M. Hajdinjak) Mezmaiskaya Cave offered shelter to Neanderthals for tens of thousands of years. The cave, located near Russia’s border with Georgia, preserved Neanderthal remains so well that researchers have now been able to extract genetic information from two different individuals who lived approximately 20,000 years […]
