More than 1,000 words, accounting for 30% of the text, have emerged from the carbonized papyrus of Herculaneum, containing ...

Globalization has allowed the Hindu festival of Holi to spread almost everywhere—at least where there is an Indian ...

“Il Plastico” is a model of ancient Rome created by Italian archaeologist and architect Italo Gismondi between 1933 and 1937, ...

It’s tough to imagine a life more turbulent and extravagant than that of Andronicus Comnenus, Byzantine emperor and the last of his dynasty. Charismatic, contradictory, lover of worldly pleasures, ...

Bone with incisions made by Neanderthals, found in Dziadowa Skała cave, Poland. Credit: T. Gąsior / Journal of Archaeological Science A bear radius fragment with seventeen incisions (one of them ...

Archaeologists from the University of Tokyo have found on the northern slopes of Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy, part of a building that could have been the villa of the first Roman emperor, ...

During the restoration and improvement works carried out by the municipality of Antalya (formerly Atalea, founded by King Attalus II of Pergamon) in southern Türkiye, new architectural structures have ...

Hanging plate carved of a human head and fragments of a green stone mosaic mask found on the site. Credit: C. Halperin / Antiquity Researchers have discovered evidence of a ritual burning event of ...

A team of researchers, led by Dean R. Lomax from the University of Bristol and the University of Manchester in the UK, recently published a study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. They discovered a ...

Before the works on RN147 in the Limoges-Bellac section in south-central France, archaeologists from Inrap excavated an area of 8800 square meters and discovered an ancient agropastoral occupation and ...

Detail of the objects found in the tomb, with the bronze mirror on the right of the image. Credit: Peter M. Fischer / Oxford Journal of Archaeology Researchers have found a Minoan bronze mirror in an ...

Lithium-ion batteries have become essential for powering our modern, technology-driven world. From laptops and smartphones to electric vehicles, these rechargeable power sources are ubiquitous.