In the year 416, Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II enacted a law that prohibited wearing long hair in the city of Rome and ...

For five years, a French-Greek team visited nineteen museums and thirty-three archaeological sites to solve a riddle that had ...

A team from the University of Granada has examined a set of eight sandal soles made with esparto, recovered in the Nuevo ...

The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, has for decades been the predominant narrative among specialists of the ancient ...

Researchers use the largest database of Imperial coin hoards to show that the non-recovery of hidden hoards was not an accident. Throughout history, humans have hidden their most precious ...

An international team of researchers has successfully sequenced the DNA of the skeletal remains of brothers Giovanni and Francesco de’ Medici, discovering a previously unknown strain of the parasite ...

A proteomic analysis of 20 individuals of the species Homo naledi finds no evidence of male markers, suggesting a possible accumulation of female individuals in the Rising Star cave system An ...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority found a limestone seal with a worship scene engraved on its base during excavations conducted on the outskirts of the city of Yavne, in the ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw has unearthed at the site of Metsamor, in present-day Armenia, the ...

A team of researchers from the University of Córdoba, the CSIC, and other institutions has documented at the Castillo Reyes ...

Nearly a millennium ago, in the 12th century, the city of Tollan Xicocotitlan was far from its era of splendor, which occurred between the years 900 and 1100 AD. Nevertheless, numerous groups settled ...

The image of Sparta that has come down to us is that of a closed, militarized, and extremely rigid society, where only ...