A pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...

Representation of the chamber or gallery where the tubes were discovered. This private chamber was of restricted access, suggesting that the consumption of psychedelics was a special ritual reserved ...

The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of black holes. The experiment ...

In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D. within the monumental complex of the Villa di Sette Bassi, discovered ...

As part of a major construction project, the Cantonal Archaeology of Aargau carried out a rescue excavation between early May 2024 and the end of March 2025. This significantly expanded the knowledge ...

The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Credit: Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki / ...

View of the site with an indication of recent finds. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

Emperors Taizu and Taizong, with Prime Minister Zhao Pu and other ministers, playing Cuju, by Qian Xuan (ca.1300). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women ...

Why did some animals from ancient eras become fossils, while others simply disappeared without a trace? The answer, at least in part, may lie within their own bodies, according to a study from the ...