A researcher from the University of Kansas has spent years studying what he calls aquaterra, large stretches of land that ...

Beneath the grounds where the new sports stadium of Wolmirstedt will be built in the central German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a ...

In the Roman world, writing was everywhere, from imperial monuments to everyday objects. Political graffiti, love poems, epitaphs, commercial transactions, birthday invitations, and even magical ...

A new scientific study published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has revisited the debate over the origin of Stonehenge’s iconic bluestones. It focuses on a rock known as the Newall ...

A team of scientists from Tel Aviv University has managed to demonstrate for the first time that there is acoustic communication between plants and insects. The study was published in the journal ...

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 ...

The ancient city of Helike, capital of the region of Achaea, on the coast of the Gulf of Corinth in Greece, was shaken time and again by earthquakes throughout its history, but its inhabitants always ...

At the Roc de les Orenetes site, a burial cavity located in the Pyrenees of Girona (northeast Spain), a fragment of human rib with a flint arrowhead still embedded in it has provided irrefutable ...

A team of researchers has deciphered an ancient clay tablet that reveals a previously unknown myth from Sumerian mythology, ...

In the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico, an international team of researchers analyzed dozens of unfired clay sculptures and ...

Loosduinen is a town near The Hague (Netherlands) whose origins date back to the late 12th century, with the foundation of a ...

Sleep remains one of the great enigmas of science, and despite its importance for physical and mental health, many of its ...