In the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Heraclea Sintica, located in what is now southwestern Bulgaria, a team of ...

Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated in warm tropical rainforests. But a study published in the journal PNAS by ...

The latest excavation campaign at Uşaklı Höyük, a mound rising on the arid central Anatolian plateau, has unearthed a discovery that could rewrite forgotten aspects of Hittite society: the remains of ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

For over half a century, an archaeological mystery remained unsolved: what substance was hidden in those ancient bronze jars discovered in an underground Greek sanctuary in Paestum, in southern Italy?

At the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, a team of researchers has achieved a feat that until now had remained beyond experimental reach: measuring the ...

Beneath the grounds where a new neighborhood is set to be built in the city of Carmei Gat, in southern Israel, archaeologists have found a workshop specialized in the production of flint blades dating ...

A pioneering study of an extraordinary Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012 has revealed a much wider and more sophisticated network of trade than previously thought, linking ...

Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...

After nearly a decade of meticulous research, the archaeological team from the University of Alicante (UA) has completed the ...