In 1992, the remains of a man who had been buried in Paris for 111 years were transferred to the Russian city of Vladivostok, ...

An international team of researchers has managed to unravel the best-kept secrets of the enigmatic bronze figurines of the ...

War is the continuation of politics by other means,” declared the Prussian military officer Carl von Clausewitz in his theoretical treatise Vom Kriege (On War). He wrote it immediately after the ...

An international team of researchers has studied the diversity and evolution of prehistoric horses that inhabited Europe between 1.6 and 1.4 million years ago. The study, focused on fossils from three ...

A study based on the analysis of carbon isotopes in more than 1,500 archaeobotanical samples shows that ancient societies of the Fertile Crescent allocated vast resources to irrigating vineyards, ...

In the Oberlöstern district of the city of Wadern in the German state of Saarland, two artificial hills rise against the sky of the Hochwald. Crowned with stone pinnacles and surrounded by sturdy ...

A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations that makes it possible to build a clock from any sequence of random events, ...

The necropolis of La Lentejuela, in the municipality of Teba (Cádiz, Spain), has brought back to light, after more than five millennia of silence, one of the most monumental and best-preserved ...

Do you think urban legends are a modern invention, fueled by the internet and social media? A revealing study by Professor Lowell Edmunds, published in the academic journal Arethusa, shows that these ...

About 30,000 years ago, in the steppes that characterized Europe during the last Ice Age, a hunter-gatherer of the Gravettian ...

A team of Armenian-Italian archaeologists has presented to the world the discovery of an imposing fortified complex, the ...