In contrast to initiatives proposing energy solutions such as carbon storage or electrolysis powered by renewable ...

Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, where ...

A team of researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester has conducted the first study on motherhood in the ...

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 ...

The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic civilization that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd ...

In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk culture created ...

Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...

The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...

Researchers have documented surprising behavior among chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest in Uganda: not only do they treat their own wounds, but they also help other members of their group—even when ...

It was not the first time an attempt had been made to subjugate them. Adalbert of Prague, Bolesław IV of Poland, the Kievan Rus, and Conrad I of Masovia had tried before, but without lasting success, ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

The complete kit of a pre-Roman stonemason found in Romania. Credit: Aurora Pețan In a Romanian forest near the hill of Măgura Călanului, an unexpected discovery has revealed a unique set of iron ...