Gravel extraction at the Liebersee site, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Belgern-Schildau in Saxony (Germany), has brought to light a series of archaeological structures that document the ...
Some of the inscriptions found. Credit: Soprintendenza archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Padova, Treviso e Belluno Preventive excavations along the route of the new Padana ...
Researchers from the University of York demonstrate that Mohenjo-Daro, the largest settlement of the Indus civilization, defied historical rules by becoming more egalitarian over time, in contrast to ...
Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar fingerprint in Antarctic ice. Credit: B ...
Helium isotope measurements in hot springs of the Kafue Rift reveal a direct connection with the Earth's mantle, suggesting that the crust has broken and a new plate boundary is forming. The team, led ...
In ancient Rome, statues of emperors were not immutable. They could change faces. A ruler who had fallen from favor would see ...
A team of scientists from the British Museum and the University of Cambridge analyzed archaeological pieces from two cities of the Sasanian Empire —Merv, in present-day Turkmenistan, and Nineveh, in ...
A team of researchers has documented what is likely the oldest case of successful dental treatment in history of human evolution, performed by a Neanderthal who lived in the Chagyrskaya cave, in the ...
When we imagine ancient Greece, we tend to think of marble, tragedies, philosophers, and wars. But the Greeks were also a ...
In the center of present-day Romania, near the town of Hațeg, lies an extraordinary story—the story of a lost world, a ...
A team of scientists from the British Museum and the University of Cambridge analyzed archaeological pieces from two cities ...
That he had imitated the beaver, which, finding itself harassed by hunters, cuts and tears with its teeth that for which it ...