A pioneering study of an extraordinary Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012 has revealed a much wider and more sophisticated network of trade than previously thought, linking ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to light more than 40,000 objects and 1,300 structural findings that offer an ...

Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the excavation of an exceptionally well-preserved thermal facility in one of ...

Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered, deep in the Historic Center of the Mexican capital, one of the most ...

Between Mars and Jupiter, in the asteroid belt, orbits a small rocky world with a unique connection to literature: asteroid ...

When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians ...

More than 3,000 years ago, in a city called Ugarit on the eastern Mediterranean coast, someone inscribed on a clay tablet a ...

In the year 968, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona embarked on a journey to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on ...

In the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Heraclea Sintica, located in what is now southwestern Bulgaria, a team of ...

A study led by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has discovered that sex reversal—a phenomenon in which an ...