In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of ...

Alaric I was a chieftain of the Tervingian tribe who is often considered the first historical king of the Visigoths. He is ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the ...

Almost everyone interested in ancient Rome is familiar with the name Sertorius. He was a Roman politician and general ...

Monastery of St. Catherine, Egypt. Credit: Marc Rycaert / Wikimedia Commons Among hundreds of forgotten manuscripts appeared an Arabic version of the Gospels containing a revealing peculiarity: in its ...

If you look closely, throughout history men have dressed almost the same as women in terms of variety of garments, color, and sophistication. It’s only recently that the two sexes have differed ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

Beneath what will soon be the route of the SuedOstLink, an electric interconnection project in eastern Germany, archaeologists from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt have ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have uncovered an intact handprint in an ancient Egyptian tomb, a tangible remnant of the artisan who worked the clay four millennia ago. The print, ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

The underground shrine at Paestum, southern Italy, where the vessels containing the residue were found. Credit: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons A team of chemists and archaeologists from the ...