In southern Sicily, where the hills of Agrigento overlook the Mediterranean Sea, an international team of archaeologists has ...

For a long time, the planet’s small remote islands were considered the last untouched refuges of nature—isolated ecosystems ...

Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with institutions from Canada and China, offers ...

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 ...

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of ...

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 ...

One of the expedition camps. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KA-03-073 / Wikimedia Commons This was the vision of Frederick Hilscher, head of the Ahnenerbe’s esotericism department and the ideologue ...

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 ...

Europe's oldest vanilla pod (below), found in Prague Castle (above). Credit: J. Irmišová et al. A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...