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, ...

Beneath what will soon be the route of the SuedOstLink, an electric interconnection project in eastern Germany, archaeologists from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt have ...

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 ...

Beneath the grounds where a new school is set to be built in Bielefeld, Germany, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the foundations of a large settlement that flourished between the 2nd and 5th ...

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 ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a group of researchers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has identified 17 complex organic ...