Ten years ago, science confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s most elusive predictions: the existence of gravitational waves. Now ...

An international team of researchers has managed to unravel the best-kept secrets of the enigmatic bronze figurines of the ...

The history of funerary rites in the Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula has just been radically rewritten following the analysis of findings made in the Los Milanes megalithic necropolis, in the ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the most astonishing finds in history: the Library of Ashurbanipal, the great ...

The image of visitors lining up in front of Pompeii’s most famous domus, a common scene on free-access Sundays when the site becomes the most visited in Italy, may not be a modern phenomenon. The ...

A team of scientists from the Department of Physics at King’s College London has discovered a set of mathematical equations that makes it possible to build a clock from any sequence of random events, ...

More than 4,500 years ago, while the first agricultural societies were developing in other parts of Europe, on the coasts and islands of the Baltic Sea, northeast of what is now Stockholm (Sweden), a ...

Sabaria is usually located in the area around the River Sabor, which rises in Zamora and flows into Portugal. Credit: Vitor Oliveira / Wikimedia Commons A recent study revisits the existence of a ...

Several meters of the oak stake tips are still preserved. They were pulled out of the sediment using an excavator. Credit: Archäologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern, Joel Furrer During a routine ...

During the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a dozen statues were inaugurated in honor of French women who stood out in different fields. The most well-known are Simone de Beauvoir, ...

A team of Armenian and European researchers has carried out the first comprehensive statistical analysis of the vishaps, enigmatic prehistoric stelae known as “dragon stones” that rise in the ...

Do you think urban legends are a modern invention, fueled by the internet and social media? A revealing study by Professor Lowell Edmunds, published in the academic journal Arethusa, shows that these ...