When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians left behind a testimony of their royal lineage that has endured to this day ...

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In the year 968, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona embarked on a journey to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on behalf of Emperor Otto I of the Holy Roman Empire. His mission was to ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the oppidum of Manching, located southeast of Ingolstadt (Germany), have brought to light more than 40,000 objects and 1,300 structural findings that offer an ...

Most of Asia was discovered by Darius, who, eager to know in which part of the sea the Indus River empties (which is the second of all rivers in raising crocodiles), sent on some ships, among others ...

In the Rhodope Mountains in southeastern Bulgaria, there is a place that seems taken from a legend—the ruins of the ancient city of Perperikon, carved directly into the rock. It is a place dominated ...

Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the ...

A study led by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has discovered that sex reversal—a phenomenon in which an ...