Roman concrete has defied the passage of time for nearly two millennia. Ports, aqueducts, markets, and entire buildings ...

At the time of writing, a giant is undergoing its final preparations for its ultimate rest beneath the sea. It’s not a giant ...

In ancient Mesopotamia, cuneiform writing was the domain of a small elite. Scribes, trained for years, mastered a complex ...

A skull with grooves in the nasal bone and isotope analyses reveal that 3,300 years ago horses were already used for riding and transporting goods in the center of the peninsula. A team of researchers ...

An international study applies African elephant energy expenditure models to resolve the historic debate over the Carthaginian army’s passage in 218 B.C. A new analysis led by the German Centre for ...

Archaeologists demonstrate that warrior and diadem stelae served both as funerary markers and as territorial milestones linked to communication routes, in a context of intense exchange between local ...

A proteomic analysis of 20 individuals of the species Homo naledi finds no evidence of male markers, suggesting a possible accumulation of female individuals in the Rising Star cave system An ...

An international team of researchers has successfully sequenced the DNA of the skeletal remains of brothers Giovanni and Francesco de’ Medici, discovering a previously unknown strain of the parasite ...

Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Riverside, have documented what could constitute the earliest ...

Archaeological discoveries are often measured by their scientific importance, but there are also finds that remain in memory ...

The Euclid space observatory, launched into orbit by the European Space Agency in 2023, has achieved a discovery that ...

The Dutch archaeological mission working in the Theban necropolis, led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven of Leiden University, has ...