If anyone thinks that the names given to the various places on the Moon—from craters to mountains, including ranges, seas and ...

A first-rate epigraphic discovery, a quartzite funerary stele found in a wine cellar in the town of Fuente Encalada (Zamora, ...

An international team of archaeologists has used, for the first time, subsurface geophysical survey technology to unravel the mysteries hidden in the ground around an ancient Greek tower on the ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, a group of European astronomers came together to form an association without precedent in the history of astronomy. Informally known as the Celestial Police (in ...

An international team of researchers has managed to unravel the best-kept secrets of the enigmatic bronze figurines of the ...

The image of visitors lining up in front of Pompeii’s most famous domus, a common scene on free-access Sundays when the site becomes the most visited in Italy, may not be a modern phenomenon. The ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...

Bird's eye view of the “Kreisgrabenanlage & Steinzeitdorf Rechnitz” project area. Credit: Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung, Abt. 7 – Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft, Archäologie Burgenland im ...

Sabaria is usually located in the area around the River Sabor, which rises in Zamora and flows into Portugal. Credit: Vitor Oliveira / Wikimedia Commons A recent study revisits the existence of a ...

Several meters of the oak stake tips are still preserved. They were pulled out of the sediment using an excavator. Credit: Archäologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern, Joel Furrer During a routine ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission, as part of the ongoing excavation campaigns at the Wadi Al-Nasb site in the southern Sinai Peninsula, has unearthed the remains of what was an integrated center for ...

A carefully carved marble slab preserves a unique and tragic story. It does not recount the exploits of a general nor the decrees of a senator, but the brief and extraordinary life of a young artist: ...