The most striking find is a heavily damaged wooden hull located inside the harbor, pinned down by a pile of ballast stones. The ship's planks were connected by wooden treenails, a typical 18th-century ...

Paris has long been a city built on its own past, but rarely has that truth been made quite so literal as it is today beneath ...

An amateur metal detectorist scanning a quiet field in South Somerset has made a spectacular discovery that is rewriting our understanding of late third-century Roman Britain. Kev ...

How was iron produced 2,000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Didé West 1 archaeological site, in the Falémé Valley ...

A comprehensive study of Mycenaean gold working opens the doors to the goldsmith’s workshop of 3500 years ago. Researchers analyzed 165 gold objects from tholos (beehive) tombs near the Bay of Volos ...

First discovered in 1912 by the prominent British geologist William Sollas and the French archaeologist Abbé Henri Breuil, the markings were initially celebrated as the first specimen of prehistoric ...

The military prestige of Alexander’s successors, otherwise known as Diadochi, has now reached its zenith in the person of King Pyrrhus of Epirus. But the fledgling state of Rome is still trying to ...

Yet, as modern marine geologists and archaeologists continue to map the depths of the Baltic basin, a far more complex and grounded truth is beginning to surface. The reality of what lies beneath the ...

History does not only survive in temples, treasures, and royal tombs. Sometimes it waits in severed hands, headless skeletons, plague graves, sacrificial children, and bodies preserved so perfectly ...

To mitigate this danger, Ming Dynasty physicians developed elaborate pharmaceutical recipes to process the raw tuberous roots. Historical texts indicate that these toxic plants were boiled in vinegar, ...

For centuries, Sardinia's colossal stone towers stood over the Mediterranean landscape like silent markers of a bygone era. Now, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study has revealed that these ...

Fascinating evidence has emerged about historical migration patterns along Peru’s Pacific coast. According to recent data reports, these patterns formed centuries before the rise of the power and ...