A small Roman glass flask, forgotten for centuries in the soil of Pergamon, one of the great medical centers of the ancient ...

The historical image of the Huei Tzompantli or the bustle of the Tlatelolco market has, with good reason, dominated the ...

A team of archaeologists from University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum in London has identified and ...

New evidence regarding its manufacture, design, and archaeological context suggests that the famous Minoan object may be a procedural artifact, possibly a game, rather than a linguistic inscription.

Beneath the damp soil and the weight of centuries, in the area of the Terme di Sorano, in the Tuscan Maremma, time has preserved a secret of unsuspected antiquity. Archaeologists working on an ...

A high-resolution morphometric analysis of the southeastern region of Coprates Chasma, part of the extensive canyon system of Valles Marineris on planet Mars, has made it possible to identify ...

The historical image of the Scythians as a homogeneous nomadic people, defined solely by horsemanship and warfare, continues to dissolve under modern scientific scrutiny. A study published in the jour ...

In northern Italy, on the border with Switzerland in the heart of the eastern Alps and at about 2,757 meters above sea level, lies the Stelvio Pass, which is the second-highest paved mountain pass in ...

The phrase a plague is upon us must have echoed frequently in ancient Jordan, where a mysterious affliction cut down ...

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An international scientific team has determined that a hand stencil discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi ...

Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the subatomic world, rests on a persistent paradox. It describes particles that ...