An international team of researchers has published a study attempting to clarify the shape, appearance, and characteristics ...

On the southeastern coast of Sicily near the town of Santa Maria del Focallo in the territory of Ispica (Ragusa), a team of ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon so unusual that it could redefine what we know about ...

For millennia, humans have sought ways to alter their state of consciousness through intoxicating substances, and alcohol has ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman periods, located in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile near the Aga ...

New findings at the Antikythera shipwreck. Credit: Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) The 2025 excavation campaign at the famous Antikythera shipwreck, which took place between May 23 and ...

The team from the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM, CSIC-Government of Extremadura), led by Esther Rodríguez González and Sebastián Celestino Pérez, presented this Thursday the results of the ...

In 2021, during excavations at the Amiens-Renancourt site in northern France, a group of archaeologists discovered something extraordinary: the carved head of a woman with a detailed face and an ...

The image of Caligula as a deranged despot obsessed with power and violence has been etched into history thanks to accounts from his contemporaries. Now, a new study led by researchers at Yale ...

Three decades after the waters of Alexandria’s bay revealed the first submerged vestiges of the seventh wonder of the world, an international archaeological mission has successfully extracted from the ...

On the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a group of Neanderthals transformed a lakeside landscape into what archaeologists have no hesitation in calling a prehistoric fat ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe—the human groups living in the Atapuerca mountains were already ...