Although he was preceded by at least two Spaniards, Portuguese historiography attributes the discovery of Brazil to the ...
An international team of archaeologists, led by Laurent Davin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of ...
For decades, historians have considered fishing a minor economic activity in the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age. The absence of references to this practice in the Linear B tablets, the ...
The Roman arch discovered in Zaragoza, part of a possible aqueduct. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza Reurbanization work around Plaza de San Miguel and the Coso has brought to light a previously ...
A new phase of archaeological research carried out between 2023 and 2025 at the site of Altilia (central-southern Italy), where the ancient Saepinum is located, is providing a more complex and dynamic ...
From high school classrooms to the most heated corners of the Internet, few mathematical concepts generate as much debate and ...
In the depths of Lake Tanganyika in Africa, one of the oldest and most diverse freshwater ecosystems on the planet, lives a discreet giant: the emperor cichlid (Boulengerochromis microlepis). This ...
The subsoil of the historic center of Padua continues to provide essential evidence for understanding the urban evolution and cultural practices of its ancient inhabitants. The archaeological ...
In 2021, a metal detectorist authorized by the owner of a farm in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, made a discovery that has ...
It was a cold morning on February 24, 1921, when farmer Peter Platz, shovel in hand, set out to do what so many farmers had ...
The image we usually have of Prehistory rarely includes looms. Stone tools, pottery, or bones tend to take center stage in ...
In 1952 the American director Joseph L. Mankiewicz released 5 Fingers, a film in which James Mason portrays a spy named ...