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 ...

Exactly ten years ago, the Urban Archaeology Program (PAU) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered, deep in the Historic Center of the Mexican capital, one of the most ...

A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the genus Basiceros — known as “ground ants” for their extraordinary ability to ...

Some of the ingots in the river. Credit: Muzej Franjevačkog samostana Tolisa Vrata Bosne Archaeologists conducting excavations on the banks of the Sava River in Tolisa, Bosnia, have discovered an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the reddish lands of Hualongdong in China’s Anhui province, the discovery of a set of fossilized teeth estimated to be 300,000 years old challenges established narratives about human evolution in ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

Sometimes, nature shapes and creates forms so perfect they can fool even the most trained eyes. This is the case with phenomena known as geofacts—a term that combines geology and artifact—a type of ...

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