Stars were extremely significant to the inhabitants of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel, especially the Elves.

Photo by László György via Soós, et al (2025) In the middle of Hungary’s vast western plains, an extinct volcano rises from the earth ... to the Late Bronze Age and one to the Early Iron ...

This indicates a hasty covering of the dead with earth, i.e. not an ... its style was in use from the middle of the first century A.D. to the beginning of the second century A.D. According to ...

The show is set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, when the dark lord Sauron is first coming into his own. Because the appendices are so thin, a lot of events and characters have to be made up.

This project aims to provide an interactive map of Middle-Earth during the Third Age as imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien in his books. All points of interest were collected on various representations of ...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is simply one of the greatest experiences you will ever have. I try my best to watch through the extended editions once each year, but the fun doesn't stop there.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Pope Francis, at 88, was the second-oldest pontiff in modern history after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ...

Sinkholes like the Middle Island one don’t have oxygen. Neither did Earth 2.5 billion years ago at the start of ... and scientists are using multibeam sonars to map the U.S. coastlines and the Great ...

In announcing his unilateral (and unconstitutional) imposition of global tariffs on April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump declared, “This will be the golden age of America.” Actually ...