When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians ...

Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the excavation of an exceptionally well-preserved thermal facility in one of ...

For decades, one of the most widely accepted theories in archaeology and the social sciences held that the introduction of agriculture in Europe, around 8,000 years ago, marked the inevitable ...

Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered, deep in the Historic Center of the Mexican capital, one of the most ...

A recent study published in the journal Saguntum by researchers Macarena Bustamante Álvarez and Andrea Menéndez Menéndez, from the University of Granada, reveals that a series of small bronze objects, ...

Sometimes, nature shapes and creates forms so perfect they can fool even the most trained eyes. This is the case with phenomena known as geofacts—a term that combines geology and artifact—a type of ...

An international team of scientists has reconstructed the genetic history of horses in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 26,000 years, revealing a past that includes extinct lineages, ancestral ...

A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the genus Basiceros — known as “ground ants” for their extraordinary ability to ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated in warm tropical rainforests. But a study published in the journal PNAS by ...

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In the year 968, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona embarked on a journey to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on ...

More than 3,000 years ago, in a city called Ugarit on the eastern Mediterranean coast, someone inscribed on a clay tablet a ...