At the eastern edge of the Peloponnese, facing the open waters of the Laconian Sea, rises a limestone promontory a mile long ...

Imagine a map that shows, with an unprecedented level of detail, the immense network of roads that once connected the vast ...

Every summer, the idyllic landscape of the Mexican Caribbean coast is disrupted by a brown, foul-smelling tide. Beaches with ...

In the small kitchen of a thermopolium, the equivalent of a street food stall in ancient Pompeii, an unexpected and luxurious ...

We have seen them in paintings and in many films, as well as in some literary works. Fools were part of the environment of ...

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, ...

During the Ediacaran period, approximately between 630 and 540 million years ago, Earth has remained a persistent and puzzling anomaly in the geological record—a magnetic riddle that for decades has ...

Between 2021 and 2022, teams from Arkeologerna, part of the Statens historiska museer, excavated nine sites along the E18 ...

The land surrounding the imposing Tel Megiddo in northern Israel, a mound that preserves millennia of history, has once again ...

Beneath the pastures and clay soil of a remote cattle ranching area in the Mexican state of Tabasco, near the border with ...

Recently, in the article dedicated to posca, the sour, watered-down wine favored by lower-class Romans, we mentioned that ...

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