An academic study reexamines a large inscription from the ancient Thracian city of Seuthopolis and proposes an innovative ...

The traditional image of small groups of hunter-gatherers, isolated and struggling to survive in a hostile glacial landscape, is definitively shattered by the results of an international study ...

The first emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty, Liu Bang, built his reign on the military genius of a man who in his youth suffered hunger and hardship, but who managed to persevere until reaching ...

The temporal boundary that separated humanity from one of the most persistent and adaptable bacterial families has been ...

The historical image of the Huei Tzompantli or the bustle of the Tlatelolco market has, with good reason, dominated the ...

A small Roman glass flask, forgotten for centuries in the soil of Pergamon, one of the great medical centers of the ancient ...

A team of archaeologists from University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum in London has identified and ...

An international scientific team has determined that a hand stencil discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi ...

The phrase a plague is upon us must have echoed frequently in ancient Jordan, where a mysterious affliction cut down ...

A recent study carried out by researcher Eduardo Orduña Aznar of the University of Barcelona provides new data on one of the ...

Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the subatomic world, rests on a persistent paradox. It describes particles that ...

May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...