A new discovery in the Casma desert once again sheds light on the complex nature of power in the first civilizations of the Americas. The Ministry of Culture of Peru, acting through the Executing Unit ...

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 ...

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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 ...

El primer investigador en documentar la Naveta des Tudons fue Juan Ramis, quien en 1818 publicó Antigüedades célticas de la isla de Menorca, el primer libro en castellano dedicado íntegramente a la ...

En el Parque Nacional de Canyonlands, cerca de Moab en el estado norteamericano de Utah, se alza una de las formaciones geológicas más misteriosas del planeta: Upheaval Dome (literalmente, la Cúpula ...