A study resolves a historical debate of almost eight centuries thanks to the analysis of lime mortars. Now, a team of Romanian researchers has managed to prove it through an innovative technique: ...

A part of the assemblage from Pietroasa, Romania. The imperial brooch in the shape of an eagle can be seen top right. Credit: ...

A study reveals six different types of bed structures in South Africa’s Border Cave and shows how our ancestors maintained ...

An archaeological study reveals how trade and cooperation with local tribes, rather than military conquest, allowed the expansion of Roman culture in Central Europe. Both places were key centers for ...

During five nights in December 2019, a group of researchers used the DECam camera, installed on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo (Chile), to observe a specific field of the Large ...

A study from the University of Melbourne reinterprets the laws of Tribune Sulpicius in 88 BC and concludes that the reforms were not aimed at mobilizing an indigent urban plebs, but rather an elite of ...

Medical diagnostic techniques and restoration archaeology have made it possible to identify the profession of one of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius, sixty years after the original excavation.

An international research team, which includes Ferhat Kaya, a researcher at the Academy of Finland at the University of Oulu, has discovered what could be the earliest evidence of human cremation. The ...

From the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the detached hand known as Thing in the Addams Family, reanimated ...

A team of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has ...

The aerial image shows it all. Where the human eye, at ground level, only sees modern farmland and roads, Cold War spy ...

A study from the Ager Mellariensis project at the University of Córdoba, published in the journal Monografías de Prehistoria ...