An international team of researchers has published a study attempting to clarify the shape, appearance, and characteristics ...

On the southeastern coast of Sicily near the town of Santa Maria del Focallo in the territory of Ispica (Ragusa), a team of ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon so unusual that it could redefine what we know about ...

For millennia, humans have sought ways to alter their state of consciousness through intoxicating substances, and alcohol has ...

Excavations at the Archaeological Park of the ancient city of Selinunte in southwestern Sicily have unearthed the adyton of Temple R, the oldest sacred building of the Greek colony, which has emerged ...

The team from the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM, CSIC-Government of Extremadura), led by Esther Rodríguez González and Sebastián Celestino Pérez, presented this Thursday the results of the ...

New findings at the Antikythera shipwreck. Credit: Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) The 2025 excavation campaign at the famous Antikythera shipwreck, which took place between May 23 and ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe—the human groups living in the Atapuerca mountains were already ...

On the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a group of Neanderthals transformed a lakeside landscape into what archaeologists have no hesitation in calling a prehistoric fat ...

A team of astronomers has presented a theory suggesting that Earth and our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, may be located within a massive cosmic void —a region of the universe less dense than its ...

In a well near the Italian city of Faenza, close to Ravenna, archaeologists found the remains of a baby who lived during the Copper Age, approximately 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. What was surprising was ...

A recent study published in the journal Vegueta reveals how counterfeit coins were key to sustaining the economy in the final centuries of the Roman Empire. The research, focused on the territorium ...