9+ hour, 12+ min ago  (433+ words) The discovery, made at one of the best-preserved open-air sites of early Homo sapiens communities, includes bones burned at high temperatures alongside evidence of predation and sudden burial. Research in this area has been ongoing since 1981, and the new data…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1133+ words) When we imagine ancient Greece, we tend to think of marble, tragedies, philosophers, and wars. But the Greeks were also a people of letters. The book Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World, by Professor John Muir and first…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1096+ words) Researchers analyze nearly 2, 000 imperial portraits spanning three centuries and discover that the practice of re-carving statues was not merely a matter of economy, but a complex political and artistic phenomenon. Nero, Caligula, and Domitian were the most "erased." In ancient…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1211+ words) Seventy million years ago, in the middle of the Tethys Sea, there was an island where evolution followed its own rules. There, dinosaurs shrank, pterosaurs became giants, and a Hungarian baron revolutionized paleontology with a theory that today is law....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1340+ words) An international study reveals that 1, 500 years ago Persian metallurgists had already mastered brass, a material that would later become widespread in the Islamic world. A team of scientists from the British Museum and the University of Cambridge analyzed archaeological pieces…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (50+ words) That he had imitated the beaver, which, finding itself harassed by hunters, cuts and tears with its teeth that for which it knows by natural instinct it is pursued. Thus Cervantes narrates in Don Quixote a popular legend based on…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (499+ words) Construction work on a flood relief basin north of the Willigis Bridge in Aschaffenburg has brought to light wooden remains that, after the corresponding analyses, have been identified as belonging to a structure from the 4th century BC. In March 2026, the…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (629+ words) Researchers from the University of York demonstrate that Mohenjo-Daro, the largest settlement of the Indus civilization, defied historical rules by becoming more egalitarian over time, in contrast to what happened in Egypt or Greece. A study published in Antiquity has…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (484+ words) In the three millennia prior to the Common Era, the civilization of the Ancient Near East developed a writing system in which wedge-shaped characters were pressed with a stylus onto wet clay tablets that were then dried, thus obtaining a…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (631+ words) Excavations carried out between late February and early March of 2026 on the outskirts of "rbotty'n, a town located in Pest County (Hungary), have brought to light a set of archaeological structures corresponding to a late Sarmatian period settlement. The work,…...