Anyone who believes that disputes over religious orthodoxy and heresies were exclusive to Christianity is mistaken. This is ...

Newgrange is a massive circular passage tomb built more than 5,000 years ago in the Boyne Valley (County Meath) in Ireland, thus older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza. Its rediscovery in 1699 ...

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how city-states emerged in ancient Greece. Instead of being solely the result of war, ...

For a long time, the image of Pharaoh Hatshepsut has been linked to the idea of a damnatio memoriae, a deliberate attempt to erase her legacy after her death. This was the prevailing view among ...

Between 1965 and 1966, during an archaeological survey around the capital of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Chu, about fifty ...

A scientist from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has presented a theory according to which time — and not spacetime ...

Archaeological excavations on Via Alessandrina, just a few meters from Trajan’s Forum, uncovered an imposing marble head ...

A team of researchers from the University of Kiel (Germany) has used an innovative technique based on seismic waves to unravel the mysteries of the Danevirke, one of the most important fortification ...

Professor Ken Ono from the University of Virginia has made a discovery that could redefine the mathematical understanding of ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Manchester has unearthed the remains of the ancient city of Imet in the Tell ...

Archaeological excavations in the locality of Cupa, in the municipality of Ugento in the southeastern tip of Italy, have ...

A team of Czech researchers discovered the skeletons of two women and a newborn buried more than 6,000 years ago in a flint ...