A team of underwater archaeologists has analyzed the remains of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Kumluca, Turkey, ...

Two recent studies led by Professor Stefano Profumo of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), propose innovative ...

The eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under ash and lava, and also preserved, like a time ...

At nearly 10,000 meters below sea level, where darkness is absolute, the pressure is crushing, and the temperature barely ...

Beneath what will soon be the route of the SuedOstLink, an electric interconnection project in eastern Germany, archaeologists from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt have ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have uncovered an intact handprint in an ancient Egyptian tomb, a tangible remnant of the artisan who worked the clay four millennia ago. The print, ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of ...

Beneath the grounds where a new neighborhood is set to be built in the city of Carmei Gat, in southern Israel, archaeologists have found a workshop specialized in the production of flint blades dating ...

A researcher from the University of Kansas has spent years studying what he calls aquaterra, large stretches of land that were once inhabited by ancient humans and are now underwater due to ...

A team of archaeologists led by Davide Zori, Ph.D., principal investigator of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) and associate professor of history and archaeology at Baylor ...