Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the excavation of an exceptionally well-preserved thermal facility in one of ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to light more than 40,000 objects and 1,300 structural findings that offer an ...

A pioneering study of an extraordinary Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012 has revealed a much wider and more sophisticated network of trade than previously thought, linking ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated in warm tropical rainforests. But a study published in the journal PNAS by ...

A recent study published in the journal Saguntum by researchers Macarena Bustamante Álvarez and Andrea Menéndez Menéndez, from the University of Granada, reveals that a series of small bronze objects, ...

Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered, deep in the Historic Center of the Mexican capital, one of the most ...

An international team of scientists has reconstructed the genetic history of horses in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 26,000 years, revealing a past that includes extinct lineages, ancestral ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

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When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians ...

In the Rhodope Mountains in southeastern Bulgaria, there is a place that seems taken from a legend—the ruins of the ancient city of Perperikon, carved directly into the rock. It is a place dominated ...

In the year 968, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona embarked on a journey to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on ...