Four years ago, archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation (BLfD) discovered a child’s tomb at the Mattsies site in southern Germany. Inside was the body of a boy buried ...

A new archaeological investigation casts doubt on one of the most emblematic accounts of the Roman conquest of Britain, questioning whether the violence at the famous Iron Age hillfort of Maiden ...

The world’s largest gold reserves—approximately 99.999% of all the gold on Earth—are at an unreachable depth beneath more than 3,000 kilometers of solid rock, alongside other elements in the planet’s ...

Just a few kilometers from Seville lies the archaeological site of Valencina de la Concepción, which five thousand years ago was one of the largest settlements in Europe, contemporary with ceremonial ...

It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But nowadays, even the harshest critics of recently deceased pontiffs should und ...

A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the use of an ancient and sophisticated weapon of war: the polybolos, a type of ...

In the 1970s, a tomb was discovered in the Al-Asasif necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, which archaeologists designated Kampp 23. The identity of its owner had remained a mystery since then, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a strange cosmic object in our galaxy that they have named Teleios, a Greek word meaning “perfect,” since the object has an almost perfectly ...

The Swiss canton of Valais, deep in the Alps in the southwest of the country, boasts a staggering 51 peaks that rise above 4,000 meters in altitude, among them the Dufour, the highest in Switzerland.

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England. It is decorated with a hunting scene, probably from North Africa. Now, ...

A study led by Julia Montes-Landa and an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, analyzed bronze production techniques, an alloy of copper (Cu) and ...