When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians left behind a testimony of their royal lineage that has endured to this day ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to ...

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 ...

Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...