Days ago we dedicated an article to the Challenge of Valdevez, a tournament held in the Middle Ages to avoid a battle between ...

A study published in the journal PLOS ONE has precisely dated one of antiquity’s most dramatic events—the gigantic eruption ...

Beneath the constant bustle of Mexico City, the modern capital that was once the nerve center of the Mexica Empire, a group ...

The Jurassic Coast of southwest England, a landscape shaped by wind and sea erosion, has yielded a new paleontological ...

In the history of art, few works have exerted such a dark and universal magnetism as Isle of the Dead by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, a true cultural phenomenon that transcended museums to embed ...

The Hungarian expedition of ELTE concludes a fruitful campaign on Mont Beuvray, unraveling the complex stratigraphy of the oppidum and defining the boundaries of a key block from the Augustan period.

In a breakthrough that redefines half a century of paleobotanical knowledge, a team of Brazilian and German scientists has managed to extract and analyze rare plant spores preserved within the tissues ...

The site, shown here, was originally excavated during the Soviet period and was relocated using hand draw maps from a 1964 book. Credit: Dr Nathaniel Erb-Satullo A new analysis of a 3,000-year-old ...

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five ...

In a discovery that seems straight out of an adventure novel, a team of archaeologists and geoscientists has unearthed in the ...

High in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, where the borders of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China meet, the frozen ground ...

The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—a period that redefined the course of human civilization through the widespread use of an abundant and durable metal—finds one of its key explanatory ...