Massive Sand Structures Discovered Beneath the North Sea Challenge Geological Principles
A team of scientists from the University of Manchester has discovered hundreds of enormous sand structures beneath the seabed of the North Sea that appear to…
Scipio’s Volunteer Veterans: The Secret Behind Rome’s Military Success in the Eastern Mediterranean
A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the…
“Adyton” of the Oldest Temple in Selinunte Discovered, Alongside Over 300 Objects Linked to Foundational Female Cults
Excavations at the Archaeological Park of the ancient city of…
Tombs with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions and a 2-Meter Sarcophagus Discovered in the Necropolis of the Aga Khan Mausoleum in Aswan
An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several…
The Oldest Greek Marble Altar in the Western Mediterranean Discovered at a Tartessian Site in Spain
The team from the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM,…
The Story of a Mysterious Copper Age Baby Discovered in a Prehistoric Well Is Uncovered
In a well near the Italian city of Faenza, close…
The Keyhole That Lets You See Three Countries in a Line from the Aventine Hill in Rome
Hidden on the peaceful Aventine Hill in Rome lies one of the city’s most curious and popular attractions: a simple…
22 Large Blocks of the Lighthouse of Alexandria Retrieved from the Seafloor, Including Its Door Lintels
Three decades after the waters of Alexandria’s bay revealed the first submerged vestiges of the seventh wonder of the world,…
Kahlenberg, the Battle That Prevented the Ottoman Conquest of Vienna and Permanently Halted Their Expansion
One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that…
The Justinianic Plague Originated in the White Huns’ Empire in Central Asia, Not in Africa, Study Reveals
For centuries, the origin of the so-called Justinianic Plague—the epidemic that ravaged the Mediterranean world in the sixth century CE—has…
Three Tombs with False Doors, Offering Tables, and Infant Remains Discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa Necropolis in Aswan
As part of the ongoing archaeological excavations taking place in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis in Aswan, an Egyptian mission has…
Shakōkidogū, the Enigmatic Humanoid Figurines with Glasses from Prehistoric Japan
From the late prehistoric Jōmon culture in Japan, which extends approximately from 14,000 to 400 BCE, numerous small humanoid figurines…
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Prehistoric Humans of Atapuerca Held Large Communal Bison Hunts Sustainably—Without Intending To
More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the…
Prehistoric “Factory” Discovered Where Neanderthals Extracted Fat in Large Quantities on the Shores of a Lake in Germany
On the shores of an ancient lake in what is…
A Garrison of Giants at Hadrian’s Wall? Oversized Roman Footwear Found at the Magna Fort
In the defensive ditches of the Roman fort of Magna,…
Two Anchor Stocks from Large Roman Cargo Ships, One with a Cathead, Recovered off the Coast of Campania
In an operation coordinated by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine…
Ancient DNA Discovered in Remains of Roman Garum: This Is How the Empire’s Most Popular Condiment Was Made
A team of researchers has managed to extract and sequence…
Mystery of the Roman Lead Pipes Found in the Rhône Solved: They Supplied Water to the Baths of Constantine
The city of Arles in French Provence is home to…
Wild orcas offer food to humans — What are they trying to tell us?
A team of researchers from Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico has documented 34 unique interactions in which wild orcas attempted…
Why Can’t Mammals of Different Species Have Offspring? Scientists Discover the Mechanism That Prevents It
An international study led by the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology of the Spanish National Research…
Scientists Detect Deep Pulsations Beneath Africa
An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Southampton has found evidence that rhythmic pulsations of…
A Babylonian Hymn Lost for a Thousand Years, Rediscovered Thanks to Artificial Intelligence
A team of researchers led by Professor Enrique Jiménez of…
Shmita, the Jewish Sabbatical Year That Prohibits Farming and Forgives Debts
God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, telling him to…
A Matriarchal Society Existed in Çatalhöyük During the Neolithic More Than 10,000 Years Ago, Researchers Find
On the Anatolian plains, more than ten thousand years ago,…
Enigmatic Stone Alignments of Carnac Revealed as the Oldest Megalithic Monuments in Europe
The mysterious stone alignments of the Carnac region in Brittany,…
The Unsolved Enigma of the Beast of Gévaudan, the Mysterious Animal That Ravaged a Region of France in the 18th Century
“It was, in fact, the land of the ever-memorable Beast,…
Madoc, the Mythical Welsh Prince Who May Have Reached America Three Centuries Before Columbus
There is a popular tradition from Welsh folklore about a…
A Millennia-Old Network of Fortified, Walled Oases Discovered in the Arabian Desert
An international team of archaeologists has discovered a network of oases surrounded by walls and fortified, some over 4,000 years old. This complex reveals a…
The Homes of the Centurions Discovered with Charred Remains and Mysterious Pits at the Roman Camp of Haltern in Germany
Excavations carried out prior to the construction of a new community and senior center in Haltern am See have brought to light a series of…
The Romans Stacked Architectural and Sculptural Materials to Create a Breakwater in the Ancient Port of Misenum, the Base of the Imperial Fleet
Beneath the waters of the port of Misenum in the Italian town of Bacoli, a team of archaeologists and underwater heritage specialists has managed to…
A Mammoth Tusk Carved 40,000 Years Ago Found in a Polish Cave Is the Oldest Boomerang in the World
An international team of scientists has analyzed a carved mammoth tusk found in the Oblazowa Cave in southern Poland, concluding that it is a boomerang…
The Ancient City of Akhetaten, Built as a Capital by Akhenaten, Reemerged as a Christian Sanctuary at the End of the Roman Period
Until now, researchers believed that the city of Amarna (the Arabic name for the ancient city of Akhetaten), founded by Pharaoh Akhenaten in 1370 BCE,…
Ancient Temple of the Lost Tiwanaku Civilization, Precursor to the Inca Empire, Discovered in Bolivia
On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of…
Rock-Carved Dwellings and a Roman Domus with a Spectacular Mosaic Found on a Hillside in Southeastern France
Archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) have unearthed, on the slopes of the hill overlooking the city of Alès, in southeastern…
Ireland Was Not Ruled by an Elite of God-Kings in the Neolithic, as Previously Believed
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…
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