At the dawn of the third millennium BC, an unprecedented phenomenon in European Prehistory began to take shape in the ...

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

Sabaria is usually located in the area around the River Sabor, which rises in Zamora and flows into Portugal. Credit: Vitor Oliveira / Wikimedia Commons A recent study revisits the existence of a ...

Bird's eye view of the “Kreisgrabenanlage & Steinzeitdorf Rechnitz” project area. Credit: Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung, Abt. 7 – Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft, Archäologie Burgenland im ...

Several meters of the oak stake tips are still preserved. They were pulled out of the sediment using an excavator. Credit: Archäologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern, Joel Furrer During a routine ...

More than 4,500 years ago, while the first agricultural societies were developing in other parts of Europe, on the coasts and islands of the Baltic Sea, northeast of what is now Stockholm (Sweden), a ...

A carefully carved marble slab preserves a unique and tragic story. It does not recount the exploits of a general nor the decrees of a senator, but the brief and extraordinary life of a young artist: ...

The progress and perfection of mathematics are intimately linked to the prosperity of the state,” said Napoleon Bonaparte, a ...

A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations ...

In 2003, during excavations in the ancient Greek city of Chersonesus Taurica, in present-day Sevastopol (Crimea), a team of Ukrainian and Polish archaeologists made an exceptional discovery: the ...

In the second courtyard of the Neue Residenz, where scaffolding now rises to shape the future home of the Belvedere Museum of ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the ...