Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...

One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...

L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...

Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of being the only one in its country. It is, of course, the Vatican Pharmacy, ...

The famous Schöningen spears, discovered in Germany in 1994, are considered the oldest weapons made by hominins that have been preserved in their entirety. For a long time, the original dating that ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

A shallow pit in Area B, containing exclusively mandibles, maxillae and isolated pig teeth; based on a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) calculation, the assemblage represents at least 13 pigs.

Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...

It was not the first time an attempt had been made to subjugate them. Adalbert of Prague, Bolesław IV of Poland, the Kievan Rus, and Conrad I of Masovia had tried before, but without lasting success, ...

Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...