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 ...

Beneath the waters of the Gulf of Naples in the ancient Portus Iulius, a team of underwater archaeologists has completed the excavation of an exceptionally well-preserved thermal facility in one of ...

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 ...

A pioneering study of an extraordinary Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012 has revealed a much wider and more sophisticated network of trade than previously thought, linking ...

As we have already explained in other articles, the Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic peoples who inhabited the eastern steppes, roughly in the area of present-day Mongolia, and lived between ...

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 ...

The latest excavation campaign at Uşaklı Höyük, a mound rising on the arid central Anatolian plateau, has unearthed a discovery that could rewrite forgotten aspects of Hittite society: the remains of ...

A study led by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has discovered that sex reversal—a phenomenon in which an individual displays the physical characteristics of one sex but the genetic makeup ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed the discovery of two individuals with ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa who were buried in 7th-century cemeteries in southern England. The ...

A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the genus Basiceros — known as “ground ants” for their extraordinary ability to ...