Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The deity came from the borderlands of what is now southeastern Turkey. The offering was left inside a Roman army fort on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, in modern Georgia, […]

What do you make of a young child who says they remember being someone else? A team at the University of Virginia has not tried to answer that. It has measured something more concrete: how much time passed between the death of the person the child “remembers” and the child’s own birth. The gap tends […]

Según la investigadora Saeedeh Sadeghi, muchos de los niños que dicen recordar una vida anterior describen una muerte traumática. Un nuevo análisis de la Universidad de Virginia ha medido algo más concreto: cuánto tiempo pasó entre la muerte de la persona «recordada» y el nacimiento del niño. El resultado es que ese intervalo tiende a […]