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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers has published a study attempting to clarify the shape, appearance, and characteristics of a curious artifact from the Greco-Roman era—the so-called Spoon of ...

In the Roman world, writing was everywhere, from imperial monuments to everyday objects. Political graffiti, love poems, epitaphs, commercial transactions, birthday invitations, and even magical ...

A new scientific study published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has revisited the debate over the origin of Stonehenge’s iconic bluestones. It focuses on a rock known as the Newall ...

A team of scientists from Tel Aviv University has managed to demonstrate for the first time that there is acoustic communication between plants and insects. The study was published in the journal ...