In October 2024, the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław (UWr) began a new season of archaeological ...
For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of historians, archaeologists, and lovers of ancient civilizations. But have you ...
A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified an unusual physical phenomenon that ...
A new archaeological investigation led by the University of Cologne has revealed how hunter-gatherer populations in Europe ...
One of the expedition camps. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KA-03-073 / Wikimedia Commons This was the vision of Frederick Hilscher, head of the Ahnenerbe’s esotericism department and the ideologue ...
It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...
Europe's oldest vanilla pod (below), found in Prague Castle (above). Credit: J. Irmišová et al. A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest ...
Excavation worker and student Lea Rokus proudly presents a beautifully decorated, almost two-thousand-year-old pottery shard. Credit: S. Spiong / LWL Delbrück-Bentfeld, a locality in the district of ...
An astronomical event may have marked the end of one of the most emblematic dynasties of ancient Egypt. A total solar eclipse that occurred on April 1, 2471 BCE, could have had a direct connection to ...
It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...
A team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW) has successfully reactivated microscopic algae that had remained in a dormant state on the seafloor for nearly 7,000 years ...
Rock art is one of the most fascinating legacies of prehistoric societies. In caves in France and Spain, paintings up to 40,000 years old have been discovered, many of them in hard-to-reach areas and ...