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A Semicircular Classroom Found in the Gymnasium of Agrigento Is the Oldest Known in the Greek World
In southern Sicily, where the hills of Agrigento overlook the Mediterranean Sea, an international team of archaeologists has ...
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Hunter-gatherers crossed the Mediterranean and reached Malta 8,500 years ago: a finding that rewrites the history of prehistoric seafaring
For a long time, the planet’s small remote islands were considered the last untouched refuges of nature—isolated ecosystems ...
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Rocks Found in Iceland Explain How Late Antiquity Little Ice Age May Have Contributed to Fall of the Roman Empire
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with institutions from Canada and China, offers ...
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An Altar Found in Tikal Reveals Teotihuacan’s Political Domination Over the Maya Elite in the Late 4th Century AD
Just steps from the center of Tikal, a Maya city more than 2,400 years old located in the heart of present-day Guatemala, an ...
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Which Empire Was More Unequal: Rome, Han China, or the Aztec Empire? A New Study Solves the Mystery
For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of ...
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“House of Life” Discovered at the Ramesseum in Luxor, Filled with Drawings and School Games
Discovered in the Ramesseum of Luxor the House of Life, a school inside the temple. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt An Egyptian-French archaeological mission has made a series of ...
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Archaeological Findings Reveal a Thriving Roman-Era Community Near the Ancient Anreppen Camp in Germany
Excavation worker and student Lea Rokus proudly presents a beautifully decorated, almost two-thousand-year-old pottery shard. Credit: S. Spiong / LWL Delbrück-Bentfeld, a locality in the district of ...
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Olga, the Vengeful Widow Who Became the First Woman to Rule Kievan Rus and Convert to Christianity
It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...
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Robert Grosseteste, the English Bishop and Philosopher Who Conceived a Precursor to the Big Bang Theory in the Middle Ages
Legend has it, as recounted by the English Benedictine monk Matthew of Paris, that the energetic Pope Innocent IV died of a heart attack triggered by the terrifying nocturnal vision of a ghost. It was ...
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Monumental Funerary High Relief Discovered in Pompeii Depicting a Life-Size Couple
The tomb with the relief of the couple in almost real scale. Credit: Alfio Giannotti / Parco archeologico di Pompei A team of archaeologists has brought to light a remarkable funerary relief depicting ...
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The Adorant: The Ice Age Sculpture That Is the Oldest Figurative Representation of a Constellation
In the Geißenklösterle cave, located in the Swabian Jura near Blaubeuren, Germany, an exceptional piece of prehistoric art was discovered in 1979: a carved mammoth ivory plaque, dated between 35,000 ...
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Twice a Day, Earth’s Surface Rises and Falls: A Lab Detects the Subtle Sway of the Planet
Twice a day, Earth’s surface experiences a slight rise and fall—a phenomenon almost imperceptible to human senses, yet one that reveals a constant dance between our planet, the Moon, and the Sun. This ...