An international team of researchers has managed to unravel the best-kept secrets of the enigmatic bronze figurines of the ...

A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations ...

Several meters of the oak stake tips are still preserved. They were pulled out of the sediment using an excavator. Credit: Archäologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern, Joel Furrer During a routine ...

More than 4,500 years ago, while the first agricultural societies were developing in other parts of Europe, on the coasts and islands of the Baltic Sea, northeast of what is now Stockholm (Sweden), a ...

In 2003, during excavations in the ancient Greek city of Chersonesus Taurica, in present-day Sevastopol (Crimea), a team of Ukrainian and Polish archaeologists made an exceptional discovery: the ...

In a discovery of considerable significance, the archaeological mission called “Appia Antica 39” has unearthed three valuable mosaics from the 2nd–3rd centuries A.D. in an imperial-era necropolis ...

The progress and perfection of mathematics are intimately linked to the prosperity of the state,” said Napoleon Bonaparte, a ...

A carefully carved marble slab preserves a unique and tragic story. It does not recount the exploits of a general nor the decrees of a senator, but the brief and extraordinary life of a young artist: ...

The ambassador of a Western kingdom crosses the threshold of the Magnaura, the great reception hall of the Byzantine imperial ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the ...

In the second courtyard of the Neue Residenz, where scaffolding now rises to shape the future home of the Belvedere Museum of ...

The image of visitors lining up in front of Pompeii’s most famous domus, a common scene on free-access Sundays when the site ...