Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of Asia was discovered by Darius, who, eager to know in which part of the sea the Indus River empties (which is the second of all rivers in raising crocodiles), sent on some ships, among others ...

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

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

In the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Heraclea Sintica, located in what is now southwestern Bulgaria, a team of ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed the discovery of two individuals with ancestry from ...

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

Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...