Control of the Mediterranean has been one of the most important triggering factors of the constant conflicts that marked the ...

Deep inside a cave crossed by a steaming, toxic stream on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made a ...

The history of humanity is an intricate tapestry, whose threads not only belong to our own species but intertwine with those ...

The Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, a toponym that gives its name to an entire technological era of humanity, the Oldowan, must ...

A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has, for the first time, quantified the profitability of gold ...

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...

A meticulous study of the ankle joint of this 4.4-million-year-old ancestor positions this species as a crucial link, bearing both primitive traits for climbing and early adaptations for upright ...

Although from time to time news appears in the media about shipwrecks that may be more than 4,000 years old, for now the oldest confirmed and dated shipwreck ever found is the Dokos wreck, which dates ...

For centuries, the image of the powerful Assyrian army with its war chariots and horsemen has dominated our understanding of ...

As the saying goes, a grateful heart is a noble one, and in 1949 Europe decided to put that into practice with the United ...

During the Ediacaran period, approximately between 630 and 540 million years ago, Earth has remained a persistent and ...

That day, the Nautilus crossed a singular zone of the Atlantic Ocean. Everyone knows about the existence of that great warm water current known as the Gulf Stream, which, after leaving the Florida ...