It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...

Many thousands of years before rice or wheat became the main crops in East Asia, millet was the staple grain that sustained ...

Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...

The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

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 ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a strange cosmic object in our galaxy that they have named Teleios, a ...

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 ...

The Swiss canton of Valais, deep in the Alps in the southwest of the country, boasts a staggering 51 peaks that rise above ...

Grand, about 15 kilometers east of Paris, lies one of the most extensive and best-preserved Merovingian-era medieval ...