21+ hour, 33+ min ago   (935+ words) Researchers from the University of Catania, in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Catania and the Valley of the Aci, have located beneath the stage of the Teatro Antico a network of underground channels that in Roman times was used…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (677+ words) A study overturns the prevailing hypothesis about brain evolution in primates and places vision as the main driver of neocortex development, relegating the frontal lobe to a role of merely proportional growth. The research, published in the journal Science, was…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (396+ words) The discovery, made in the sacred area dedicated to the goddess Uni, provides new insights into the religious beliefs and foundation rituals of Etruscan cities. The discovery was made at the conclusion of the thirty-ninth archaeological excavation campaign carried out…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (848+ words) Researchers have managed to reconstruct previously unknown parts of an imperial decree that documents a prolonged tax fraud in the Roman province of Caria, in western Anatolia, which culminated with the threat of the death penalty for the officials involved....

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1474+ words) A review of four books reveals the latest advances in the study of Neolithic stone constructions, from Stonehenge to Scandinavian dolmens Megaliths —those enormous stone blocks that have stood for millennia— continue to fascinate archaeologists and the general public. A…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (768+ words) Non-invasive research by the University of Catania has identified buried structures and opens new perspectives on the Calabrian Hellenistic site. What lies beneath one of the most important fortified settlements of Hellenistic Calabria? A study combining archaeology and geophysics has…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (526+ words) The remains of a Neolithic neonate, found in the Lamen Valley (Belluno, Italy), show the oldest known evidence of an obstetric extraction maneuver. The death, which radiocarbon dating places between 3932 and 3653 B.C., surprised an individual at approximately forty weeks of gestation…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (249+ words) A study by the University of Michigan reveals that hundreds of meters below the surface, rocks and water harbor complex ecosystems of fungi and microorganisms in far greater abundance than previously estimated. The study, led by Quinn Moon, a doctoral…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (659+ words) The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the completion of the excavation and restoration works of an ancient pool located in the frigidarium of the monumental complex known as the Hamam Gymnasium, within the ancient…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (634+ words) Excavations by the University of Catania at the Tava Tepe site, located in western Azerbaijan, have uncovered an archaeological complex that upends established notions about Late Bronze Age communities in the Caucasus region. What was initially interpreted as an isolated…...