In a heavily forested area near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania, an extraordinary archaeological discovery has come to light ...

The most famous of all the predatory dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, likely evolved in a different part of the world than its ...

A groundbreaking new study has conclusively shown that southwest Britain was a major supplier of tin to Bronze Age ...

For centuries, scholars have been fascinated by the way the Parthenon, the crown jewel of Athens’ Acropolis, was illuminated, ...

Long before modern humans arrived in Europe, early members of the human family tree were engineering wooden spears to hunt prey along the shores of an ancient lake in central Germany.

A new study of ancient and modern societies shows that human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman – a much higher ...

Archaeologists in Hungary uncovered a treasure trove of valuable metal artifacts during excavations at a site known as Somló ...

During the excavations the archaeologists found a trench, 6.6 feet (two meters) deep, that surrounded the fortress (it would have likely been filled with water). Dug during the Ptolemaic era, the moat ...

The story of the Garden of Eden has fascinated people for millennia, with countless scholars and amateur enthusiasts trying ...

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In 2018, a salvage excavation at the ancient Roman-period site of Khirbat Ibreika in southern Israel resulted in the recovery ...

When Mount Vesuvius violently erupted on the morning of August 24, AD 79, the residents of Pompeii were caught off guard.