Near the town of Palaikastro, located at the eastern end of the island of Crete, lies the archaeological site of a city from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island during the Bronze ...

An international team of researchers has succeeded in reconstructing one of the lesser-known episodes of European prehistory: ...

Archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL) investigated a cremation burial ground from the Late ...

A shallow pit in Area B, containing exclusively mandibles, maxillae and isolated pig teeth; based on a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) calculation, the assemblage represents at least 13 pigs.

Naga, on the west bank of Luxor, have discovered three new tombs of high-ranking officials from the New Kingdom, in a finding ...

A team of researchers documented a previously unseen behavior in a group of wild chimpanzees in the forests of Guinea-Bissau, Africa: the deliberate use of stones to produce sounds, which they ...

A recent study analyzes the attempt by the Roman emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE, to promote haruspicy, the ...

A study led by Julia Montes-Landa and an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, analyzed bronze production techniques, an alloy of copper (Cu) and ...

If we say that the current head of a once-prominent European princely house bears the name Heinrich XIV, that his predecessor ...

At the San Lázaro rock shelter near Segovia in central Spain, a team of scientists has discovered a granite cobble bearing a ...

In war, ice is often treacherous, as the Dutch learned when French cavalry seized a fleet by riding over the frozen Niewediep ...

Four years ago, archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation (BLfD) discovered a child’s tomb at ...