On the southeastern coast of Sicily near the town of Santa Maria del Focallo in the territory of Ispica (Ragusa), a team of ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon so unusual that it could redefine what we know about ...

For millennia, humans have sought ways to alter their state of consciousness through intoxicating substances, and alcohol has ...

The view through the keyhole. Credit: Galen Crout / Wikimedia Commons-Unsplash As the seasons and foliage change, so does the landscape that frames the dome, making the view continuously different and ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman periods, located in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile near the Aga ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe—the human groups living in the Atapuerca mountains were already ...

A team of researchers from Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico has documented 34 unique interactions in which wild orcas attempted to share food with humans, a behavior that suggests these cetaceans may ...

A team of astronomers has presented a theory suggesting that Earth and our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, may be located within a massive cosmic void —a region of the universe less dense than its ...

In a well near the Italian city of Faenza, close to Ravenna, archaeologists found the remains of a baby who lived during the Copper Age, approximately 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. What was surprising was ...

Excavations at the Archaeological Park of the ancient city of Selinunte in southwestern Sicily have unearthed the adyton of Temple R, the oldest sacred building of the Greek colony, which has emerged ...

A recent study published in the journal Vegueta reveals how counterfeit coins were key to sustaining the economy in the final centuries of the Roman Empire. The research, focused on the territorium ...

A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial aspect of the Roman army during the Republic: the volunteer veterans who ...