A study led by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has discovered that sex reversal—a phenomenon in which an ...

The recently discovered mosaic with the flip-flop like sandals. Credit: Regione Siciliana / Parco Archeologico di Morgantina e Villa Romana del Casale Alongside these representations, archaeologists ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under ash and lava, and also preserved, like a time capsule, minute details of the daily life of its inhabitants. Among them, ...

The latest excavation campaign at Uşaklı Höyük, a mound rising on the arid central Anatolian plateau, has unearthed a discovery that could rewrite forgotten aspects of Hittite society: the remains of ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

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 ...

In the reddish lands of Hualongdong in China’s Anhui province, the discovery of a set of fossilized teeth estimated to be 300,000 years old challenges established narratives about human evolution in ...

At the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, a team of researchers has achieved a feat that until now had remained beyond experimental reach: measuring the ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

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

As we have already explained in other articles, the Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples who inhabited the eastern ...