Just steps from the center of Tikal, a Maya city more than 2,400 years old located in the heart of present-day Guatemala, an ...

Khali—known as “The Empty Quarter”—has been synonymous with extreme aridity, endless dunes, and a relentless climate that ...

For over a thousand years, between 3300 and 2150 BCE, a prehistoric settlement located in what is now the town of Valencina ...

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

Discovered in the Ramesseum of Luxor the House of Life, a school inside the temple. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt An Egyptian-French archaeological mission has made a series of ...

Excavation worker and student Lea Rokus proudly presents a beautifully decorated, almost two-thousand-year-old pottery shard. Credit: S. Spiong / LWL Delbrück-Bentfeld, a locality in the district of ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Leucas have brought to light the first theater discovered in the Ionian Islands. This majestic monument, situated in a privileged position, dominates the landscape ...

Europe's oldest vanilla pod (below), found in Prague Castle (above). Credit: J. Irmišová et al. A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest ...

One of the expedition camps. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KA-03-073 / Wikimedia Commons This was the vision of Frederick Hilscher, head of the Ahnenerbe’s esotericism department and the ideologue ...

An astronomical event may have marked the end of one of the most emblematic dynasties of ancient Egypt. A total solar eclipse that occurred on April 1, 2471 BCE, could have had a direct connection to ...

In the Geißenklösterle cave, located in the Swabian Jura near Blaubeuren, Germany, an exceptional piece of prehistoric art was discovered in 1979: a carved mammoth ivory plaque, dated between 35,000 ...