A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the ...

Few people will not have heard of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler who, between the 13th and 14th centuries, traveled ...

After nearly a decade of meticulous research, the archaeological team from the University of Alicante (UA) has completed the ...

In 2013, in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, located in the northern Portuguese region of Alto Minho, the União das Freguesias de Grade e Carralcova was created—a merger of the two parishes of ...

Alaric I was a chieftain of the Tervingian tribe who is often considered the first historical king of the Visigoths. He is best known for having sacked Rome in 410 A.D., an unheard-of event that he ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

In the reddish lands of Hualongdong in China’s Anhui province, the discovery of a set of fossilized teeth estimated to be 300,000 years old challenges established narratives about human evolution in ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

Almost everyone interested in ancient Rome is familiar with the name Sertorius. He was a Roman politician and general especially tied to the history of Spain because it was on this land that he fought ...

At nearly 10,000 meters below sea level, where darkness is absolute, the pressure is crushing, and the temperature barely rises above freezing, a team of Chinese scientists has documented vibrant and ...

The wall of the oppidum of Gergovia recently excavated. Credit: Romary / Wikimedia Commons After completing his consulship in 58 BCE, Caesar was appointed proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, ...

Two recent studies led by Professor Stefano Profumo of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), propose innovative theories that seek to answer one of the most fundamental questions in modern ...