In the year 968, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona embarked on a journey to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to light more than 40,000 objects and 1,300 structural findings that offer an ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

For decades, one of the most widely accepted theories in archaeology and the social sciences held that the introduction of agriculture in Europe, around 8,000 years ago, marked the inevitable ...

The latest excavation campaign at Uşaklı Höyük, a mound rising on the arid central Anatolian plateau, has unearthed a discovery that could rewrite forgotten aspects of Hittite society: the remains of ...

A pioneering study of an extraordinary Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012 has revealed a much wider and more sophisticated network of trade than previously thought, linking ...

In the reddish lands of Hualongdong in China’s Anhui province, the discovery of a set of fossilized teeth estimated to be 300,000 years old challenges established narratives about human evolution in ...

Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered, deep in the Historic Center of the Mexican capital, one of the most ...

Some of the ingots in the river. Credit: Muzej Franjevačkog samostana Tolisa Vrata Bosne Archaeologists conducting excavations on the banks of the Sava River in Tolisa, Bosnia, have discovered an ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the genus Basiceros — known as “ground ants” for their extraordinary ability to ...

A recent study published in the journal Saguntum by researchers Macarena Bustamante Álvarez and Andrea Menéndez Menéndez, from the University of Granada, reveals that a series of small bronze objects, ...