This summer, the excavation project in northwest Bükk, Hungary, continued, led by a university team specializing in the ...

A team of archaeologists from the Odense Museum has unearthed more than 50 exceptionally well-preserved skeletons in Åsum, ...

Archaeological excavations at the historic Battle of Manzikert battlefield (modern-day Malazgirt in Turkey), where the ...

Every story has a beginning, and so does that of the Ancient Olympic Games, of course. In this case, it all started with ...

A recent historical study, published in the journal Theory and Society, seeks to explain one of the darkest and most ...

The meteorological machine of Prokop Diviš next to his birthplace. Credit: Bohemianroots / Wikimedia Commons The American Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing the lightning rod, among ...

Most historical civilizations, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Chinese, Babylonians, Greeks, Mayans… used natural measures ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered the remains of an ancient and previously unknown agricultural civilization in Morocco, dating back between 3400 and 2900 BCE. This discovery, reported in the ...

Marie Byrd Land is a vast territory that, due to its immense size and location in the most inhospitable continent on the planet, has managed to remain in a curious political limbo: it has not been ...

A group of researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa has identified a new climatic period on our planet, named the Ophiuroid Optimum, which spanned from 50 to 450 A.D ...

Cores extracted from the depths of Greenland. Credit: Henrik Drake A recent international study, led by Associate Professor Henrik Drake from Linnaeus University, has uncovered groundbreaking evidence ...

Skull with perforating bronze arrowhead (approx. 35mm) found at Weltzin 20 (North). Note the damage to the tip of the ...