He spoke to me in the language used throughout all of Barbary and even in Constantinople among captives and Moors—a language ...

An international team of scientists has managed to decipher the genetic code of the Scythians, perhaps one of the most fascinating and enigmatic peoples of antiquity, known for their skill in ...

Beneath the grounds where a new school is set to be built in Bielefeld, Germany, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the foundations of a large settlement that flourished between the 2nd and 5th ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have identified a new state of matter within a material synthesized in their laboratories—an advance that could redefine the boundaries of ...

A team of researchers has deciphered an ancient clay tablet that reveals a previously unknown myth from Sumerian mythology, featuring a storm god captured in the underworld and a clever fox who might ...

Although its great boom occurred in the 16th century, the drive to travel the known world and discover new lands was something that already existed in Antiquity, and for that reason we have accounts ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a group of researchers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has identified 17 complex organic ...

View of the excavation of the newly discovered port in Corsica. Credit: Brice Chevaux / Inrap As part of a single-family home construction project in the marina of Meria, on the Cap Corse peninsula ...

On the southeastern coast of Sicily near the town of Santa Maria del Focallo in the territory of Ispica (Ragusa), a team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of a Greek ship dating from the ...

A researcher from the University of Kansas has spent years studying what he calls aquaterra, large stretches of land that were once inhabited by ancient humans and are now underwater due to ...

A piece of defensive weaponry manufactured more than three millennia ago during the final phase of the Bronze Age has recently been identified among the fragments of an archaeological assemblage ...