At the Roc de les Orenetes site, a burial cavity located in the Pyrenees of Girona (northeast Spain), a fragment of human rib ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern coast of Portugal, at ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman periods, located in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile near the Aga ...

New findings at the Antikythera shipwreck. Credit: Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) The 2025 excavation campaign at the famous Antikythera shipwreck, which took place between May 23 and ...

In 2021, during excavations at the Amiens-Renancourt site in northern France, a group of archaeologists discovered something extraordinary: the carved head of a woman with a detailed face and an ...

The team from the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM, CSIC-Government of Extremadura), led by Esther Rodríguez González and Sebastián Celestino Pérez, presented this Thursday the results of the ...

The image of Caligula as a deranged despot obsessed with power and violence has been etched into history thanks to accounts from his contemporaries. Now, a new study led by researchers at Yale ...

Three decades after the waters of Alexandria’s bay revealed the first submerged vestiges of the seventh wonder of the world, an international archaeological mission has successfully extracted from the ...

More than 400,000 years ago—long before the rise of the first agricultural civilizations or even the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe—the human groups living in the Atapuerca mountains were already ...

On the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a group of Neanderthals transformed a lakeside landscape into what archaeologists have no hesitation in calling a prehistoric fat ...

Excavations at the Archaeological Park of the ancient city of Selinunte in southwestern Sicily have unearthed the adyton of Temple R, the oldest sacred building of the Greek colony, which has emerged ...

A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial aspect of the Roman army during the Republic: the volunteer veterans who ...