At some point between stone crashing on stone and the murmur of words by a Paleolithic fire, something shifted.In a brand new study, a multidisciplinary group of researchers has mapped the deep prehis ...

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (Iliad, Robert Fagles’ translation). So, Agamemnon snatches Briseis, the desirable war trophy of ...

Researchers have identified a shipwreck off Porkkala in the Gulf of Finland as the warship Falken. The 17th-century ship was built for King Gustav II Adolf and was later used under Queen Kristina.

New archaeological research conducted at the legendary site of Agios Athanasios - Homer’s School - in northern Ithaca is shedding extraordinary new light on the island's prehistoric, Mycenaean, and He ...

Using state-of-the-art computer modeling and climate reconstructions, a team of anthropologists has unveiled the possible migratory highways used by Neanderthals to journey thousands of kilometers fro ...

AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte Milvio, Italy), crossing the River Tiber some 5 kilometres nor ...

In a dazzling discovery described as the first of its kind in Israel, archaeologists have unearthed a Roman marble sarcophagus bearing a mythological scene of Dionysus and Hercules locked in a spirite ...

Just 20 centimeters beneath the windswept soil of Senja, a remote island in Northern Norway, archaeologists have uncovered a stunning remnant of the Viking Age: a woman of status laid to rest in a boa ...

In a remarkable find that deepens our understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, archaeologists working at the ...

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history.The study has been published in the jour ...

In a discovery rewriting the timeline of symbolic behavior in early humans, archaeologists in Spain have identified what is ...

High in the cloud forests of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, where vegetation and altitude combine to conceal secrets, archaeologists have uncovered a breathtaking rediscovery: over 100 previously un ...