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Monumental Funerary High Relief Discovered in Pompeii Depicting a Life-Size Couple
A team of archaeologists has brought to light a remarkable funerary relief depicting a couple—a man and a woman—at an almost ...
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Messengers Between Worlds in the Depths of Caves: Children Also Participated in the Creation of Prehistoric Art
Rock art is one of the most fascinating legacies of prehistoric societies. In caves in France and Spain, paintings up to ...
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The Worst Floods in History: What Science Reveals and No One Had Told You
A new study led by the University of Exeter challenges the perception that recent extreme floods in various parts of the ...
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A Total Solar Eclipse May Have Been the Reason Why the Ancient Egyptians Stopped Building Monumental Pyramids
An astronomical event may have marked the end of one of the most emblematic dynasties of ancient Egypt. A total solar eclipse ...
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Exquisite Neolithic Arrowheads Discovered in Oman Mountains
An international team of researchers has discovered an ancient Neolithic settlement in Hayy Al-Sarh, near the city of Rustaq, in Oman. The excavation, part of the PrehistOman project, has revealed ...
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Mammoth Hunting Camp from 25,000 Years Ago with Bones, Tusks, and Ivory Tools, Found in Austria
Find layer with the remains of dismembered mammoths and stone tools in excavation area 2. Credit: Marc Händel / ÖAW-ÖAI The findings include two excavation areas spanning several meters, located a ...
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The Walls and North Gate of the Ancient Greek City of Selinunte in Sicily Discovered
Aerial view of the finds, fragments of the walls and the north gate of the city of Selinunte. Credit: Parco Archeologico di Selinunte, Cave di Cusa e Pantelleria The new findings, presented on March ...
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Enigmatic Infant Burials in a Neolithic Settlement Reveal That Houses Were Simultaneously Temples or Prehistoric Maternities
General view of the Lepenski Vir site in Serbia. Credit: Stanisław Ludwiński / Wikimedia Commons A recent study, based on ancient DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating, has revealed crucial information ...
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Roman Aqueduct Section from the 2nd Century AD, 38 Meters Long, Discovered Beneath Rusovce Castle in Slovakia
Excavations at Rusovce Castle, Slovakia, have uncovered a Roman aqueduct. Credit: Trnavská univerzita v Trnave The restoration work on Rusovce Castle, a neo-Gothic gem located in a district of ...
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Via Cava, the Mysterious Paths Carved into the Rock by the Etruscans or Earlier Peoples
South of Tuscany, around the towns of Sovana, Sorano, and Pitigliano, there is a network of roads or pathways carved into the living rock. It is known that the Etruscans or earlier peoples were their ...
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The Strange Story of Sosipatra, the Greek Philosopher to Whom Mysterious Beings Granted the Power of Divination
Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the Sophists, in which he recounted the biographies of twenty-three philosophers ...
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Thugs, the Indian Sect of Thieves Who Worshiped the Goddess Kali
Sandokan exterminated them in his kingdom, and Indiana Jones faced their most sinister version; Phileas Fogg crossed their domains during his trip around the world, and the Beatles were chased by them ...