Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Caesarea, in present-day Israel, have found a Roman-era marble sarcophagus ...

Many readers have surely visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There, a simple chest is preserved—made of dark, somewhat ...

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how ...

An artificial intelligence program was trained to study the writing styles of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Qumran ...

A study from Tel Aviv University proposes the hypothesis that prehistoric humans’ control of fire was not initially intended ...

An international team of researchers has investigated the strange, radical transformations that took place in the diet, ...

A study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology analyzed thrush remains found in a latrine of a fast-food ...

A team of archaeologists reexamined the findings from the El Cerrón site in Illescas (Toledo, Spain) and found that the local ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

As early as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy, then considered just a nebula, was heading toward us—toward ...

During excavations prior to the construction of a residential tower in the Waalfront district of the Dutch city of Nijmegen, ...

An interdisciplinary team composed of researchers from the University of Alicante (UA) and the University of Zaragoza (Unizar ...