An international team of researchers has succeeded in reconstructing one of the lesser-known episodes of European prehistory: ...

Naga, on the west bank of Luxor, have discovered three new tombs of high-ranking officials from the New Kingdom, in a finding ...

Archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL) investigated a cremation burial ground from the Late ...

A recent study analyzes the attempt by the Roman emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE, to promote haruspicy, the ...

The Swiss canton of Valais, deep in the Alps in the southwest of the country, boasts a staggering 51 peaks that rise above 4,000 meters in altitude, among them the Dufour, the highest in Switzerland.

Teleios image captured by the ASKAP telescope. Credit: M. D. Filipović et al. The discovery, made thanks to observations by the Australian ASKAP telescope, revealed that Teleios is so symmetrical that ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn’t exactly like that; it was an assimilation that had begun in Etruscan ...

A team of researchers documented a previously unseen behavior in a group of wild chimpanzees in the forests of Guinea-Bissau, Africa: the deliberate use of stones to produce sounds, which they ...

At the San Lázaro rock shelter near Segovia in central Spain, a team of scientists has discovered a granite cobble bearing a ...

If we say that the current head of a once-prominent European princely house bears the name Heinrich XIV, that his predecessor ...

Four years ago, archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation (BLfD) discovered a child’s tomb at ...