On the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea stands a circular stone structure that tells of centuries of human ...

An international team of researchers has managed to unravel the best-kept secrets of the enigmatic bronze figurines of the ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...

A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations that makes it possible to build a clock from any sequence of random events, ...

The image of visitors lining up in front of Pompeii’s most famous domus, a common scene on free-access Sundays when the site becomes the most visited in Italy, may not be a modern phenomenon. The ...

Bird's eye view of the “Kreisgrabenanlage & Steinzeitdorf Rechnitz” project area. Credit: Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung, Abt. 7 – Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft, Archäologie Burgenland im ...

In ancient times, it was said that all men are either Platonists or Aristotelians, an aphorism updated to our days by ...

Since last June, a meticulous urban archaeology project carried out in the historic center of Lecce, in the southeastern tip of Italy, has been rewriting the darkest chapters of the city’s history, ...

In previous articles we talked about Stanley Clifford Weyman, Gregor MacGregor, Princess Caraboo, Pablo Paleólogo Tagaris, ...

An Iron Age metal treasure, composed of 68 objects and found by chance in 2021 in Jodłowno (Poland), has been subjected to intense scientific scrutiny. The results, recently published in the journal ...

Ten years ago, science confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s most elusive predictions: the existence of gravitational waves. Now ...