In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans ...

The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic ...

For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to ...

A pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...

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 ...

Representation of the chamber or gallery where the tubes were discovered. This private chamber was of restricted access, suggesting that the consumption of psychedelics was a special ritual reserved ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...

In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D. within the monumental complex of the Villa di Sette Bassi, discovered ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of black holes. The experiment ...

View of the site with an indication of recent finds. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

In a city doomed to eternity by the fury of Vesuvius, every stone, every crack, and every object tells a story. The most recent comes from the House of Helle and Phrixus, a modestly sized yet richly ...