Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...

In the heart of the ancient Roman city of Gabii, located just 11 miles east of Rome, archaeologists discovered the remains of a massive stone-lined basin, partly carved directly into the bedrock.

A team of researchers from Yale University has scientifically identified the contents of a valuable Egyptian alabaster vessel inscribed with the name of the Persian king Xerxes I, who died in 465 BCE.

The Nahal Mishmar Hoard is an archaeological discovery of more than 400 copper objects from the Chalcolithic period, found in ...

For about 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has stood as a testament to human ingenuity. Yet, its method of construction ...

A singular geological process—a clay mask of extreme fineness—has allowed the appearance in life of a 66-million-year-old ...

The foundational narrative of the first inhabitants of the Americas is being rewritten in stone. A comprehensive ...

An international research team has managed to reconstruct, with unprecedented detail, the genetic history of the Iberians who inhabited the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age. The ...

In the depths of the South Pacific Ocean, far from any shipping route or inhabited island, lies a graveyard of titans from ...

In the arid highlands of the Huaytará region, a solitary stone building erected by the Inca Empire in the mid-15th century ...

An innovative study, based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, has re-evaluated what made a road “royal” in ...

Blanche-Nef, the ship that sank with the heir to the English throne and more than 300 nobles, is the title of an article we ...