Some time ago we talked here about the Beaver Wars, one of the bloodiest conflicts in North American history, if not the ...

An archaeological excavation campaign in the Fondo ex Pasqualis, at the southeastern corner of the ancient Roman city of ...

In 1571, the Christian fleet of the Holy League defeated the Ottoman one at the Battle of Lepanto. It was the battle in which ...

A team of Chinese archaeologists has unearthed in the westernmost part of the Tarim Basin the remains of what was a ...

During the Ediacaran period, approximately between 630 and 540 million years ago, Earth has remained a persistent and puzzling anomaly in the geological record—a magnetic riddle that for decades has ...

For the first time, the parade ground of the Toulon naval base — a space historically off-limits to scientific scrutiny — is ...

Mercenary armies have been a reality throughout history, documented as early as the 2nd millennium BCE, especially remembered ...

A small treasure composed of four gold rings, delicately decorated with incisions and probably forming a necklace or a prestige ornament, has been documented by Romanian researchers. The find, made by ...

The depopulation of large urban centers—a phenomenon that has shaped the course of history time and again—is often attributed ...

An extensive row of more than five thousand cavities, drilled with geometric precision into the arid slope of a Peruvian hill ...

The official history, consolidated for decades in archaeology manuals, maintained that the Picts, those enigmatic peoples of ...

Here we have devoted several articles to the use of animals in warfare—some more or less common (horses, elephants, dogs), ...