Jessica Mary Bradley currently receives funding from the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust in collaboration with Wellcome. Abigail Parrish does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...
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Gla, the largest Mycenaean fortress, a lost name, a drained lake, and a citadel with no story
Hidden in the Boeotian plains, Gla is an enormous Cyclopean-walled citadel—still standing after 3,000 years—yet with almost no clear explanation for who built it or why. Its rise seems tied to a ...
In 1960, excavators uncovered the Dendra Panoply—an intact bronze suit of armor—near the largely forgotten citadel of Midea, a fortress of towering cyclopean walls and buried elite tombs. This episode ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...
In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...
Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...
This is the story of a quest. A story which stems from a stream of failures and some gleams of perseverance, where countless attempts clash with repeated falls, a story which exists because of people ...
Born on October 15th, 70 BC, Publius Virgilius Maro or Virgil, would be regarded as one of Rome’s greatest poets. Commissioned under Augustus, his incomplete and finest work, the Aeneid, would be ...
Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...
The fresco depicts a goddess or priestess with spikes, 1250-1180 BC. Archaeological Museum of Mycenae. Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The story of a tax dispute inscribed on clay ...
M ore than 3,000 years after it was supposed to have taken place, there is still doubt as to whether or not the Trojan War ...
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