In the year 968, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona embarked on a journey to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to light more than 40,000 objects and 1,300 structural findings that offer an ...

Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the excavation of an exceptionally well-preserved thermal facility in one of ...

Most of Asia was discovered by Darius, who, eager to know in which part of the sea the Indus River empties (which is the second of all rivers in raising crocodiles), sent on some ships, among others ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed the discovery of two individuals with ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa who were buried in 7th-century cemeteries in southern England. The ...

As we have already explained in other articles, the Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples who inhabited the eastern steppes, roughly in the area of present-day Mongolia, and lived between ...

A study led by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has discovered that sex reversal—a phenomenon in which an individual displays the physical characteristics of one sex but the genetic makeup ...

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, one of the most widely accepted theories in archaeology and the social sciences held that the introduction of agriculture in Europe, around 8,000 years ago, marked the inevitable ...

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 ...

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 through East Asia, met Kublai Khan, and recounted his experience in a work titled ...