Beneath the grounds where the new sports stadium of Wolmirstedt will be built in the central German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a ...

A researcher from the University of Kansas has spent years studying what he calls aquaterra, large stretches of land that ...

In the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca, Mexico, an international team of researchers analyzed dozens of unfired clay sculptures and reliefs modeled over a thousand years ago in a cave considered sacred by ...

Sleep remains one of the great enigmas of science, and despite its importance for physical and mental health, many of its mechanisms still have no explanation. Now, research from the University of ...

Although its great boom occurred in the 16th century, the drive to travel the known world and discover new lands was something that already existed in Antiquity, and for that reason we have accounts ...

An international team of researchers has published a study attempting to clarify the shape, appearance, and characteristics of a curious artifact from the Greco-Roman era—the so-called Spoon of ...

A team of archaeologists led by Davide Zori, Ph.D., principal investigator of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) and associate professor of history and archaeology at Baylor ...

A new scientific study published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has revisited the debate over the origin of Stonehenge’s iconic bluestones. It focuses on a rock known as the Newall ...

A team of scientists from Tel Aviv University has managed to demonstrate for the first time that there is acoustic communication between plants and insects. The study was published in the journal ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern coast of Portugal, at the Monte Clérigo and Praia do Telheiro sites. The footprints date to ...

At the Roc de les Orenetes site, a burial cavity located in the Pyrenees of Girona (northeast Spain), a fragment of human rib with a flint arrowhead still embedded in it has provided irrefutable ...

In the Roman world, writing was everywhere, from imperial monuments to everyday objects. Political graffiti, love poems, epitaphs, commercial transactions, birthday invitations, and even magical ...