Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the ...
A team from the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has identified the grave of an armed horseman, buried between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, inside ...
When people talk about Neanderthal technology, they almost always mean stone: points, scrapers, flakes chipped from flint. There is a good reason for that. Stone can last hundreds of thousands of ...
The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...
Colour-composite image of the Galactic Centre and Sagittarius B2 as seen by the ATLASGAL survey. Credit: ESO/APEX & MSX/IPAC/NASA / Wikimedia Commons A gas cloud some 26,000 light-years from Earth ...
Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...
In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer ...
When we think of Greek colonization, we think of Athens, Corinth or the cities of Euboea, which scattered new settlements ...
The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be ...
The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting ...
A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp ...
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