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

For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated in warm tropical rainforests. But a study published in the journal PNAS by ...

A recent study published in the journal Saguntum by researchers Macarena Bustamante Álvarez and Andrea Menéndez Menéndez, from the University of Granada, reveals that a series of small bronze objects, ...

Sometimes, nature shapes and creates forms so perfect they can fool even the most trained eyes. This is the case with phenomena known as geofacts—a term that combines geology and artifact—a type of ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under ash and lava, and also preserved, like a time capsule, minute details of the daily life of its inhabitants. Among them, ...

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 ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

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

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

Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the ...

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