In the German state of Hesse, right where the Nidder and Seeme rivers wind through fertile fields, stands a hill that holds ...

When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians left behind a testimony of their royal lineage that has endured to this day ...

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 ...

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Between Mars and Jupiter, in the asteroid belt, orbits a small rocky world with a unique connection to literature: asteroid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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