Just a few kilometers from Seville lies the archaeological site of Valencina de la Concepción, which five thousand years ago ...

In the 1970s, a tomb was discovered in the Al-Asasif necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, which archaeologists ...

The world’s largest gold reserves—approximately 99.999% of all the gold on Earth—are at an unreachable depth beneath more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the ...

It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

Although the relationship between plants and pollinators has been studied for decades, not much attention has been paid to ...

A joint study by researchers from the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom), the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at the ...

In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...