Caucasus

New research has surfaced, suggesting that Renaissance master, Leonardo da Vinci, may have been only half-Italian. According to Carlo Vecce, a professor at the University of Naples and an expert on da Vinci, the polymath's mother, Caterina, was, in...

A new study that analyzed protein residues from ancient cooking cauldrons found what the people of Caucasus in the Bronze Age ate. Archaeologists have long been drawing conclusions about how ancient tools were used by the people who crafted them...

The Melissa orphanage in Thessaloniki is trying to find people who once lived there to hear their stories and reconnect with them.

Early this morning the Sochi-2014 Olympic Torch was plunged to the bottom of Lake Baikal, which is the deepest lake in the world. The lake curves for nearly 400 miles through south-eastern Siberia, north of the Mongolian boarder. The...