Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus ...

The pillar with the 56-oracle inscription in the place of discovery. Credit: Kileci, Ş., Tüner Önen, N., & Özüdoğru, Ş. 2026 / Excavation Archive A limestone pillar found in 2024 at Kibyra, in ...

A new study argues that the Sun will shed its outer layers in about 4,600 lopsided bursts rather than a smooth breeze. Each burst would nudge the giant planets just enough to scramble their orbits, ...

The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...

Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus to the Gulf of Suez. Most of them were linked to the Ptolemies, the dynasty ...

About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years ago.

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state ...

The shoulder blade is such a wide and flat bone that in some areas it becomes almost translucent when held up to the light.

Tucked among the Greek temples that made Agrigento famous, on the south coast of Sicily, there is a narrow valley of orange ...

About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its ...

Hagar, a village in Egypt's Gharbia province, was working on a plot of land in front of his house when he came across a block ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...