For decades, historians have considered fishing a minor economic activity in the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age. The absence of references to this practice in the Linear B tablets, the ...

The Roman arch discovered in Zaragoza, part of a possible aqueduct. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza Reurbanization work around Plaza de San Miguel and the Coso has brought to light a previously ...

From high school classrooms to the most heated corners of the Internet, few mathematical concepts generate as much debate and ...

A team of archaeologists has managed to reconstruct the details of an ancient cult of the ancestors which, according to historical sources, served as a unifying element between Greek settlers and the ...

A new study led by Todd Surovell, an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, together with a team of collaborators from Chile, Austria, and the United States Geological Survey, has called into ...

An international study led by the University of Cologne has shown that birch tar, a material traditionally associated with tool-making by Neanderthals, possesses antibacterial properties that could ...

The subsoil of the historic center of Padua continues to provide essential evidence for understanding the urban evolution and cultural practices of its ancient inhabitants. The archaeological ...

A new phase of archaeological research carried out between 2023 and 2025 at the site of Altilia (central-southern Italy), ...

Although he was preceded by at least two Spaniards, Portuguese historiography attributes the discovery of Brazil to the ...

An international team of archaeologists, led by Laurent Davin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of ...

In 2021, a metal detectorist authorized by the owner of a farm in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, made a discovery that has ...

It was a cold morning on February 24, 1921, when farmer Peter Platz, shovel in hand, set out to do what so many farmers had ...