An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the ...

Alaric I was a chieftain of the Tervingian tribe who is often considered the first historical king of the Visigoths. He is ...

Almost everyone interested in ancient Rome is familiar with the name Sertorius. He was a Roman politician and general ...

At the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, a team of researchers has achieved a feat that until now had remained beyond experimental reach: measuring the ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen has found that in Murayghat, Jordan, a fascinating Early Bronze Age site (approximately 5,000 years ago), human groups gathered to honor ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have uncovered an intact handprint in an ancient Egyptian tomb, a tangible remnant of the artisan who worked the clay four millennia ago. The print, ...

A researcher from the University of Kansas has spent years studying what he calls aquaterra, large stretches of land that were once inhabited by ancient humans and are now underwater due to ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...

The internet and the digital revolution have rendered the fax obsolete, a device introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1964 that enjoyed a brief moment of glory in the following decades of the 20th ...

The underground shrine at Paestum, southern Italy, where the vessels containing the residue were found. Credit: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons A team of chemists and archaeologists from the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have identified a new state of matter within a material synthesized in their laboratories—an advance that could redefine the boundaries of ...