Around 4,200 and 3,200 years ago, the planet experienced two major climatic events characterized by increased aridity. For ...
An Iron Age fortified Settlement found at Stülper Huk near Lübeck. Credit: Niklas Dopp / Kiel University For two intensive weeks, the usual silence of the Stülper Huk peninsula—a natural site on the ...
The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age—a period that redefined the course of human civilization through the widespread use of an abundant and durable metal—finds one of its key explanatory ...
The necropolis of La Lentejuela, in the municipality of Teba (Málaga, Spain), has brought back to light, after more than five ...
Archaeological excavations at the Torreparedones site (Córdoba, Spain) have yielded a singular and moving discovery: the ...
In the seemingly endless landscape of La Mancha in Spain, unusual mounds break the line of the horizon. For centuries they ...
In 1992, the remains of a man who had been buried in Paris for 111 years were transferred to the Russian city of Vladivostok, ...
On the night of October 24, 1944, in the last year of World War II, the submarine USS Tang sank during the attack on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait. Curiously, it had been struck by one of its ...
Some time ago, we dedicated an article to explaining what the Nika riots were, a sporting brawl that turned into open rebellion against Emperor Justinian in sixth-century A.D. Constantinople. That ...
Imagine being able to look inside a compact block of 1,600-year-old soil and see the perfect imprint of a shoe—not from the impression of its sole, but from the metallic shadow of the hundreds of ...
In the vast and rich mythology of ancient Greece, populated by an infinity of gods, heroes, and monsters, there exists a legendary place that captured the Hellenic imagination like no other: ...
The fourth archaeological excavation campaign of the University of Málaga (UMA) at the Cerro del Villar site has yielded first-rate discoveries that reshape the understanding of the productive past of ...