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Europe’s Population Was Reduced by 50 Percent by a Climatic Regression at the End of the Last Ice Age
An international team of researchers has succeeded in reconstructing one of the lesser-known episodes of European prehistory: ...
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Three New Tombs of High Officials from the New Kingdom Found in Luxor, Identified by Name and Title
Naga, on the west bank of Luxor, have discovered three new tombs of high-ranking officials from the New Kingdom, in a finding ...
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Numerous Bronze Age Graves Around a Burial Mound Yet to Be Found, Discovered in Germany
Archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL) investigated a cremation burial ground from the Late ...
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How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome
A recent study analyzes the attempt by the Roman emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE, to promote haruspicy, the ...
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Roman Roads Continued to Be Used in Medieval England for Over a Thousand Years After the Fall of the Empire
The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...
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What Is the Massive Spherical Plasma Bubble Astronomers Have Discovered in Our Galaxy? They Still Don’t Know Its Origin or Age
Teleios image captured by the ASKAP telescope. Credit: M. D. Filipović et al. The discovery, made thanks to observations by the Australian ASKAP telescope, revealed that Teleios is so symmetrical that ...
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The Colossal Grande Dixence, the Tallest Dam in Europe Holding the Largest Alpine Lake Above 2,000 Meters
The Swiss canton of Valais, deep in the Alps in the southwest of the country, boasts a staggering 51 peaks that rise above 4,000 meters in altitude, among them the Dufour, the highest in Switzerland.
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Interpretatio Graeca, the way the Greeks identified the gods of other religions with their own
It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn’t exactly like that; it was an assimilation that had begun in Etruscan ...
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A Vast Merovingian Cemetery Used for Over Seven Centuries Found at the Site Where Chilperic I Was Assassinated
In Noisy-le-Grand, about 15 kilometers east of Paris, lies one of the most extensive and best-preserved Merovingian-era medieval cemeteries in Île-de-France, the necropolis of Les Mastraits. Its first ...
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The Tomb of Amphipolis built by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion was found to be aligned with the winter solstice
View of the Amphipolis tomb with the recovered elements spread out on the southwest side, ready to be placed. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece From the time of its discovery, there had been ...
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Peoples of Northeastern Iberian Peninsula Refused to Adopt Greek Techniques for Producing Bronze 4,000 Years Ago
A study led by Julia Montes-Landa and an international team of archaeologists, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, analyzed bronze production techniques, an alloy of copper (Cu) and ...
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Executive Order 6102: How Roosevelt Forced Citizens to Hand Over Their Gold to the State
U.S. gold coins known as double eagle. Their minting was completed in 1933. Credit: Portable Antiquities Scheme / Wikimedia Commons In 1933, a document circulated throughout the United States in the ...