In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, a strange stone known as the Lynx Stone (in Latin lyngurium, ligurium or lapis lincis) ...

In a breakthrough that redefines half a century of paleobotanical knowledge, a team of Brazilian and German scientists has managed to extract and analyze rare plant spores preserved within the tissues ...

The Hungarian expedition of ELTE concludes a fruitful campaign on Mont Beuvray, unraveling the complex stratigraphy of the oppidum and defining the boundaries of a key block from the Augustan period.

Julius II was not nicknamed the Terrible Pope for nothing. He has gone down in History as the pontiff who sponsored artists such as Michelangelo, Bramante, and Raphael, practiced nepotism with many ...

A research team from Aarhus University has identified the earliest known use of blue pigment in Europe, a finding that redefines the understanding of creative practices and pigment technology in early ...

An Iron Age fortified Settlement found at Stülper Huk near Lübeck. Credit: Niklas Dopp / Kiel University For two intensive weeks, the usual silence of the Stülper Huk peninsula—a natural site on the ...

Around 4,200 and 3,200 years ago, the planet experienced two major climatic events characterized by increased aridity. For ...

The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—a period that redefined the course of human civilization through the widespread use of an abundant and durable metal—finds one of its key explanatory ...

The necropolis of La Lentejuela, in the municipality of Teba (Málaga, Spain), has brought back to light, after more than five ...

Archaeological excavations at the Torreparedones site (Córdoba, Spain) have yielded a singular and moving discovery: the ...

In the seemingly endless landscape of La Mancha in Spain, unusual mounds break the line of the horizon. For centuries they ...

War is the continuation of politics by other means,” declared the Prussian military officer Carl von Clausewitz in his ...