Throughout human history, volcanic eruptions have wreaked havoc on civilizations, causing drastic climatic shifts, failed ...

On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian ...

Nestled in the heart of the Trastevere district, at the foot of Villa Sciarra and on the historic Janiculan hill, lies one of ...

An international team of geneticists, led by researchers from Trinity College in collaboration with archaeologists from ...

Described as a rare find by the regional archaeology department, one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in France, ...

A recent study published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology has shown that Roman rule, which occurred over two thousand years ago, continues to leave deep marks on regions in ...

This verse from the Bible likely sounds familiar to many; it refers to the conquest of the Mesopotamian city by Cyrus the Great and the Persians in 539 BCE, the year they ended a period of Babylonian ...

View of the location and excavations of the ancient mega-fortress discovered in Georgia. Credit: Nathaniel Erb-Satullo A recent study led by Dr. Nathaniel Erb-Satullo of Cranfield University has shed ...

An interdisciplinary team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, together with experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has concluded, after analyzing a skull ...

The tsunami that followed the earthquake dragging a boat onto the beach. A landslide can be seen in the background Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Some videos of the earthquake that shook ...

A recent study published by scholars Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak analyzes the possible function of pyrophyllite discs found in southern Ukraine. These medieval artifacts may have ...

An international team of researchers from twelve institutions across ten European countries has achieved an unprecedented milestone in climate sciences. This group successfully drilled through ...