A map of Europe is crossed by an intricate network of blue lines: the Danube, the Rhine, the Rhône, the Thames. Their names ...

An international team of researchers has established that a small and long-forgotten copper alloy tool, excavated a century ...

For decades, history and archaeology books have painted a very clear image of the covered Roman markets known as macellum.

A gigantic shadow rises, silent and flat, across the alluvial plain of southern present-day Iraq, barely fifteen kilometers from the Iranian border. For centuries, the outlines of a cyclopean wall, ...

A preliminary study, based on a new method for dating ancient structures, suggests that the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza could be tens of thousands of years older than what traditional Egyptology ...

Imagine the bustle of a central street at dusk. The sound of conversation, the clinking of glasses, the smell of meat grilling. This is not a scene from a modern tavern in Plaka, but the image the ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five major mass extinctions, the last of which is perhaps the best known because it ...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, located on Golgotha, the place where according to the Gospels the Crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus took place, is one of the most important ...

Beneath land slated for a new residential development in Werl-Westönnen, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western ...

The team from the Research Group of History and Archaeology of the University of León (ULE) has concluded the excavation campaign carried out last August at the site of Peña del Castro, located in the ...

A team of physicists from New York University has experimentally observed a new and radical form of time crystal, an exotic ...

The terminal violence of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 AD, which encapsulated in a geological instant the life of Pompeii ...