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The Mysterious Byzantine Bucket Found at Sutton Hoo Contains the Remains of an Anglo-Saxon Who May Have Served in the Imperial Army
In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...
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Mysterious Large Fire Pits Studied in the Great Ceremonial City Believed to Be the Place of Origin of Aztecs
La Quemada is the archaeological site of an ancient city located in the state of Zacatecas in central present-day Mexico, which, unlike other great cities such as Teotihuacan, was built on the slopes ...
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Small ceramic granaries with millet were sealed in Han tombs 2,200 years ago—now researchers are analyzing them
Many thousands of years before rice or wheat became the main crops in East Asia, millet was the staple grain that sustained ...
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Interpretatio Graeca, the way the Greeks identified the gods of other religions with their own
It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...
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What Is the Massive Spherical Plasma Bubble Astronomers Have Discovered in Our Galaxy? They Still Don’t Know Its Origin or Age
An international team of astronomers has discovered a strange cosmic object in our galaxy that they have named Teleios, a ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...
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Fragments of a large relief showing King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods, found in ancient Nineveh
The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...
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The Vatican Pharmacy is the most visited in the world, with over two thousand customers a day
Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of being the only one in its country. It is, of course, the Vatican Pharmacy, ...
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The Schöningen Spears May Have Been Made by Neanderthals Who Already Hunted in Organized Groups
The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have been preserved in their entirety. For a long time, the original dating that ...