Under the harsh Rhône summer light, the earth has begun to give back, stone by stone, the secrets of one of the most prosperous Roman colonies in Gaul. A team of archaeologists, during the course of ...

A travertine urn ornamented with a striking relief of Medusa has revealed an unusual funerary deposit in the Palazzone Necropolis in Perugia, Italy. The find, produced during routine conservation work ...

On the island of Menorca, there is a one-of-a-kind monument in the world: an imposing stone structure shaped like an upside-down ship that is the oldest fully preserved prehistoric building in Europe, ...

Almost fifteen centuries ago, in the year 580, the Visigothic king Leovigild carried out a military campaign in Vasconia, a territory that today we mainly associate with the Basque Country and Navarre ...

More than 2,800 years ago, the inhabitants of Iron Age Jerusalem faced an environmental reality that was both challenging and familiar: climate change characterized by long periods of drought ...

The material history of antiquity has traditionally been built upon the solid remains that have resisted the relentless passage of time: fragments of pottery, rusted coins, buried bones, and the stone ...

A tiny object barely three centimeters tall has become the closest window we have into the appearance of the Vikings. It is a game piece carved in walrus ivory that, after more than two centuries in ...

On the island of Madagascar, known for its unique biodiversity, an extraordinary creature once lived until just over a ...

In the Lesser Antilles, southeast of Puerto Rico, lies the small island of Montserrat, a British territory whose capital is one of a kind. It’s Plymouth, whose once-bustling streets now lie buried und ...

Bajo la luz cruda del verano rodanés, la tierra ha comenzado a devolver, piedra a piedra, los secretos de una de las colonias romanas más prósperas de la Galia. Un equipo de arqueólogos, en el transcu ...

Una urna de travertino ornamentada con un impactante relieve de Medusa ha revelado un insólito depósito funerario en la Necrópolis del Palazzone en Perugia, Italia. El hallazgo, producido durante labo ...

En la isla de Madagascar, famosa por albergar una biodiversidad única, habitó hasta hace poco más de mil años una criatura extraordinaria, el pájaro elefante, el ave más grande que jamás haya existido ...