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A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

A team of archaeologists led by Antonio Manuel Poveda Navarro, of the Fundación Urbs Regia, has published an extensive study ...
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Pre-Hispanic Equinoctial Alignments Discovered in Cuicuilco: The Apparent Path of the Sun Coincides with the Cempohuallapohualli Calendar

An archaeoastronomical study conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), through the Department ...
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They Have Been With Us Since the Ice Age: A Study Using Ancient DNA Places Dog Domestication Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

An international investigation led by the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford has succeeded in establishing the oldest ...
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Native Americans created the oldest gaming dice in history, 6,000 years earlier than those of Old World civilizations

Late Pleistocene (13,000 to 11,700 BP), Early Holocene (11,700 to 8,000 BP), Middle Holocene (8,000 to 2,000 BP), and Late Holocene (2,000 to 450 BP) diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native ...
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Shipwrecks, Byzantine Anchors, and Port Remains Discovered North of the Greek Island of Karpathos

The Greek Ministry of Culture, through the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and in collaboration with the National Research Foundation—specifically the Institute of Historical Research—has carried ...
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The coin buried in 1584 during the founding of Rey Don Felipe in the Strait of Magellan, the city whose colonists died of starvation, has been found

In the locality of Puerto del Hambre, in the Strait of Magellan, a team of archaeologists has recovered a silver eight-reales coin minted in the 16th century that does not constitute an object of ...
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A 5,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in Türkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use

During the 2024 excavation campaign at Küllüoba Höyük, an archaeological mound located west of the Turkish province of ...
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The Oldest Relatives of Humans and Fish — and a Dune Sandworm: Fossils Found in China Reveal Complex Life Before the Cambrian

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens ...
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When the Legions Entered Rome for the First Time, Setting a Precedent That Would Not Stop

Anyone who has seen Spartacus, the film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1960 starring Kirk Douglas, may remember a scene in ...
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The attack that changed the history of the Vascones: evidence of a Roman Republic battle found at the oppidum of Irulegi

A study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has just revealed the secrets of a war episode that remained hidden ...
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Researchers discover in northern China an ancient human lineage previously unknown that dates back to the end of the last glaciation

The Donghulin site, on the northern China plain, is one of the few places that documents the transition from hunter-gatherer ...
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A Forgotten Mosaic Reveals the Only Known Image of a Venatrix, the Women Who Fought Beasts in the Roman Amphitheater

The image remained hidden for more than a century. A mosaic found in Reims (France) in 1860, destroyed during World War I and ...