Although its great boom occurred in the 16th century, the drive to travel the known world and discover new lands was ...

A new scientific study published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has revisited the debate over the origin of ...

As part of a single-family home construction project in the marina of Meria, on the Cap Corse peninsula (northernmost tip of ...

A team of scientists from Tel Aviv University has managed to demonstrate for the first time that there is acoustic ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first Neanderthal footprints on the southwestern coast of Portugal, at the Monte Clérigo and Praia do Telheiro sites. The footprints date to ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman periods, located in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile near the Aga ...

A team of astronomers has presented a theory suggesting that Earth and our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, may be located within a massive cosmic void —a region of the universe less dense than its ...

A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial aspect of the Roman army during the Republic: the volunteer veterans who ...

An international team of researchers has published a study attempting to clarify the shape, appearance, and characteristics ...

On the southeastern coast of Sicily near the town of Santa Maria del Focallo in the territory of Ispica (Ragusa), a team of ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon so unusual that it could redefine what we know about ...

For millennia, humans have sought ways to alter their state of consciousness through intoxicating substances, and alcohol has ...