The Great London [02/06/17

  • Fossils: 520-million-year-old arthropod brains turn paleontology on its head

    Science has long dictated that brains don't fossilize, so when Nicholas Strausfeld co-authored the first ever report of a fossilized brain in a 2012 edition of Nature, it was met with "a lot of flack."A: Under a light microscope, the above fossil shows traces of preserved neural tissues in black. B: An elemental scan of this fossi…

  1. 'The Dying Gaul: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome' at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
  2. Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind at the British Museum
  3. Greek antiquities travel to Marseille
  4. Exhibition of Ancient Greek Technology in Cyprus
  5. 'BEYOND. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece' at The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens