An international scientific team has determined that a hand stencil discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi ...

The phrase a plague is upon us must have echoed frequently in ancient Jordan, where a mysterious affliction cut down ...

May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...

Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the subatomic world, rests on a persistent paradox. It describes particles that ...

An emergency intervention on the southern bank of the Rafina stream has yielded a discovery of the first order for understanding the complex funerary rites and social organization of the earliest ...

The exact location of Madinat al-Zahira, the short-lived administrative capital built by Almanzor in the late 10th century as a symbol of his power and a direct rival to Madinat al-Zahra (Madinat ...

In northern Italy, on the border with Switzerland in the heart of the eastern Alps and at about 2,757 meters above sea level, lies the Stelvio Pass, which is the second-highest paved mountain pass in ...

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A recent academic study, published in the journal Hispania Antigua by researcher Eduardo Sánchez Moreno of the Autonomous ...

Pausanias traveled through Greece around the year 173 CE and left a unique testimony: every four years, sixteen women from ...

There is a very interesting fact about roads that will surprise more than one person. Road networks have existed since ...

Methodical patience and a trained eye for the imperceptible constitute the epigrapher’s primary tools. One year after his ...