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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a century, Raknehaugen, the colossal earthen mound that rises about 40 kilometers north of Oslo, has been considered by archaeology to be the tomb of a powerful Iron Age chieftain. With ...

In 2021, a metal detectorist authorized by the owner of a farm in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, made a discovery that has ...

Some time ago we devoted an article to Cola di Rienzo, an apostolic notary of humble origin who lived in the 14th century and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fieldwork carried out during the 2025 campaign has made it possible to locate, for the first time, a remnant of the valuable ...