Almost everyone interested in ancient Rome is familiar with the name Sertorius. He was a Roman politician and general ...

A team of underwater archaeologists has analyzed the remains of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Kumluca, Turkey, ...

Two recent studies led by Professor Stefano Profumo of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), propose innovative ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under ash and lava, and also preserved, like a time ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

Beneath what will soon be the route of the SuedOstLink, an electric interconnection project in eastern Germany, archaeologists from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt have ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have uncovered an intact handprint in an ancient Egyptian tomb, a tangible remnant of the artisan who worked the clay four millennia ago. The print, ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...

Beneath the grounds where a new neighborhood is set to be built in the city of Carmei Gat, in southern Israel, archaeologists have found a workshop specialized in the production of flint blades dating ...

A researcher from the University of Kansas has spent years studying what he calls aquaterra, large stretches of land that were once inhabited by ancient humans and are now underwater due to ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have identified a new state of matter within a material synthesized in their laboratories—an advance that could redefine the boundaries of ...

Depiction of the study area and fortifications: (A) Overview of the Qin-Han wall systems focusing on the Yin Mountains, (B) The Qin-Han walls and surveyed sections (in yellow). From north to south, ...