Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed ...
Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex — one in New Mexico, one in Montana. Isolated prints, each capturing a single ...
A papyrus that had gone unexamined for decades in a Cairo archive has made it possible to demonstrate, for the first time with solid textual evidence, to what extent the Roman poet Lucretius copied a ...
An archaeologist mapped the spot in the 1800s and moved on. A century and a half later, a Spanish-Egyptian team finally dug there — and found a judge's tomb with its paint still on the walls. When the ...
Late Neolithic activity at Sha'ar Hagolan, in the central Jordan Valley. The Neolithic settlement was built on top of the redeposited upper sediments. Credit: Garfinkel et al. 2006 The research, ...
In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For ...
Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Paul Valery University of Montpellier demonstrate that outer anchorage areas were decisive in maritime traffic in Antiquity, which forces a rewriting ...
The moment of the extraction of the head. Credit: Proyecto Libisosa / Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de Castilla-La Mancha The face is gone. Not chipped or worn away by time, but struck — ...
In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For ...
Flag with the Cantabrian Labarum at the Torrelavega Town Hall. Credit: Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons However, when we add the adjective Cantabrian to the term labarum, the matter takes on another ...
The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window ...
Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened again this year, and this time the find was unusual enough that archaeologists had ...
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