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

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

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to light more than 40,000 objects and 1,300 structural findings that offer an ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A pioneering study of an extraordinary Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012 has revealed a much wider and more sophisticated network of trade than previously thought, linking ...

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 ...

Some of the ingots in the river. Credit: Muzej Franjevačkog samostana Tolisa Vrata Bosne Archaeologists conducting excavations on the banks of the Sava River in Tolisa, Bosnia, have discovered an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...