You have to be of a certain age to have seen the TV series Pippi Longstocking, a 1969 Swedish production adapting the series ...

For decades, our image of Iron Age settlements in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, known as castros, has been limited to ...

In the depths of the Earth, hidden within some of the planet’s oldest and deepest rocks, lay a secret 4.5 billion years old.

There are in Europe a few rara avis territories whose current status is the result of historical peculiarities. One of them ...

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five ...

A study by Shandong University reveals that the creation of a shared cultural identity—instrumental for later political unification—was a centuries-long process driven by local ritual spaces, long ...

The established narrative about the expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia—a story long dominated by the idea of migratory waves carrying innovation—is now undergoing a substantial revision. A study ...

A study published in the journal PLOS ONE has precisely dated one of antiquity’s most dramatic events—the gigantic eruption of the Thera volcano (modern Santorini)—and compared it directly with the ...

High in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, where the borders of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China meet, the frozen ground has preserved for millennia the secrets of the nomadic Scythian warriors.

The pioneering application of an advanced active thermography technique on the carbonized papyri of the Herculaneum library ...

An amber deposit in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon has revealed an exceptional time capsule, faithfully preserving at a ...

An archaeological treasure of exceptional richness and diversity discovered near the town of Ártánd, in eastern Hungary, most ...