For centuries, the Javakheti Plateau, in the highlands of southern Georgia, has remained one of the least archaeologically ...

On the upcoming May 1, exactly 250 years will mark the founding of the Illuminati, the Order of the Illuminated, a secret ...

External view of the molar. Occlusal surface with the jadeite stone view and buccal aspect view. Credit: E. Mata-Castillo et al. 2026 This is the first documented case of a gemstone inserted into a ...

This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Credit: ...

The presence of a rocky formation previously unknown to nautical cartography has been confirmed by the scientific team aboard the icebreaker Polarstern, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), in ...

A team of archaeologists has unearthed at the site of Küllüoba, in Anatolia, a charred bread dating between 3200 and 3000 BC. The discovery reveals that our ancestors were already mixing cereals and ...

The site Jojosi 5 with clearly visible accumulations of stone artifacts – Stone Age knapping workshops – which were uncovered during excavations. Credit: University of Tübingen / Manuel Will An ...

Along the tranquil banks of the Yazi River, just 40 kilometers from bustling Chengdu, the earth concealed for more than three ...

In Schaalby, a small locality in northern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, a team of archaeologists and volunteers has brought ...

There was a time, about 2,500 years ago, when a small village located high in a mountain range in southeastern Iberia burned with troubling frequency. Not once, but three times. Its adobe houses ...

Between 2020 and 2024, a team of researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Botoșani ...

Pompeii did not die suddenly. Before Vesuvius buried it in AD 79, the city had already survived another catastrophe: a ...