In the cold autumn of AD 375, the Roman Emperor Valentinian I, known for his fierce temper and firmness in defending the ...
In the small kitchen of a thermopolium, the equivalent of a street food stall in ancient Pompeii, an unexpected and luxurious ...
Every summer, the idyllic landscape of the Mexican Caribbean coast is disrupted by a brown, foul-smelling tide. Beaches with ...
Imagine a map that shows, with an unprecedented level of detail, the immense network of roads that once connected the vast ...
At the eastern edge of the Peloponnese, facing the open waters of the Laconian Sea, rises a limestone promontory a mile long ...
A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...
Aerial view of Mound A at the Poverty Point site. Credit: Jennifer R. Trotter / Wikimedia Commons About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, ...
A massive genetic study of 156 ancient genomes shows that the Sarmatians who settled in the Carpathian Basin came from the Urals and Kazakhstan—and survived the Huns’ arrival. A new genetic study has ...
The land surrounding the imposing Tel Megiddo in northern Israel, a mound that preserves millennia of history, has once again ...
Between 2021 and 2022, teams from Arkeologerna, part of the Statens historiska museer, excavated nine sites along the E18 ...
We have seen them in paintings and in many films, as well as in some literary works. Fools were part of the environment of ...
Control of the Mediterranean has been one of the most important triggering factors of the constant conflicts that marked the ...