There is a popular tradition from Welsh folklore about a prince who, in the middle of the Middle Ages, set out to cross the ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Southampton has found evidence that rhythmic ...

Until now, researchers believed that the city of Amarna (the Arabic name for the ancient city of Akhetaten), founded by Pharaoh Akhenaten in 1370 BCE, had been abandoned forever after its fall.

On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in present-day Bolivia, more than a thousand years ago, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Andes developed: the Tiwanaku. Considered by ...

Anyone who believes that disputes over religious orthodoxy and heresies were exclusive to Christianity is mistaken. This is ...

For a long time, the image of Pharaoh Hatshepsut has been linked to the idea of a damnatio memoriae, a deliberate attempt to ...

Between 1965 and 1966, during an archaeological survey around the capital of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Chu, about fifty ...

A scientist from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has presented a theory according to which time — and not spacetime ...

Newgrange is a massive circular passage tomb built more than 5,000 years ago in the Boyne Valley (County Meath) in Ireland, thus older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza. Its rediscovery in 1699 ...

Archaeological excavations on Via Alessandrina, just a few meters from Trajan’s Forum, uncovered an imposing marble head ...

Professor Ken Ono from the University of Virginia has made a discovery that could redefine the mathematical understanding of ...

A team of Czech researchers discovered the skeletons of two women and a newborn buried more than 6,000 years ago in a flint ...