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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...

A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...

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 ...

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, ...