In the year 180 BC, approximately 47,000 people were torn from their homes in the valleys of the Magra and Vara, in ...

For decades, historians have described the vilica —the administrator of a Roman villa— as a figure in charge of domestic ...

Dark matter, that mysterious substance that holds galaxies together, could be naturally “in tune” with a hidden fifth ...

A study reveals that cadmium and zinc exert opposite effects on the symbiosis between poplars and the fungus Laccaria bicolor, and provides evidence of an internal communication system in the mycelium ...

Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Riverside, have documented what could constitute the earliest ...

Roman concrete has defied the passage of time for nearly two millennia. Ports, aqueducts, markets, and entire buildings ...

Ancient civilizations around the world developed sophisticated systems of astronomical calculation, but while in Greece, ...

At the time of writing, a giant is undergoing its final preparations for its ultimate rest beneath the sea. It’s not a giant ...

The Dutch archaeological mission working in the Theban necropolis, led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven of Leiden University, has ...

The Euclid space observatory, launched into orbit by the European Space Agency in 2023, has achieved a discovery that ...

Archaeological discoveries are often measured by their scientific importance, but there are also finds that remain in memory ...

In ancient Mesopotamia, cuneiform writing was the domain of a small elite. Scribes, trained for years, mastered a complex ...