Deep inside a cave crossed by a steaming, toxic stream on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made a ...

Control of the Mediterranean has been one of the most important triggering factors of the constant conflicts that marked the ...

The Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, a toponym that gives its name to an entire technological era of humanity, the Oldowan, must ...

The history of humanity is an intricate tapestry, whose threads not only belong to our own species but intertwine with those ...

A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has, for the first time, quantified the profitability of gold ...

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...

A system of tunnels carved into the tuff of Nahal ‘Amal, dated to the 14th and 15th centuries, reveals the use of brackish water to generate mechanical energy, redefining the medieval industrial ...

A massive genetic study of 156 ancient genomes shows that the Sarmatians who settled in the Carpathian Basin came from the Urals and Kazakhstan—and survived the Huns’ arrival. A new genetic study has ...

Aerial view of Mound A at the Poverty Point site. Credit: Jennifer R. Trotter / Wikimedia Commons About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, ...

A meticulous study of the ankle joint of this 4.4-million-year-old ancestor positions this species as a crucial link, bearing both primitive traits for climbing and early adaptations for upright ...

Although from time to time news appears in the media about shipwrecks that may be more than 4,000 years old, for now the oldest confirmed and dated shipwreck ever found is the Dokos wreck, which dates ...

For centuries, the image of the powerful Assyrian army with its war chariots and horsemen has dominated our understanding of ...