Toward the end of the 4th millennium B.C., a revolutionary technology emerged in the Near East: metallurgy, which gave its ...

In the Christian part of the Iberian Peninsula, the 11th century saw the rise of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, the birth of Portugal, the dominance of the county of Barcelona over the other ...

Aerial view of the five hypogea. Credit: Jonathan Santana et al. A recent study has revealed that the hypogeum cemetery of La Beleña, located in the province of Córdoba (southern Spain), is one of the ...

Remains of the mosaic floor of the Roman house in Sicily. Credit: Johannes Bergemann / Georg-August-Universität Göttingen For over 20 years, archaeologists from the University of Göttingen have been ...

If we were to ask what is the world’s oldest active monarchy, most readers would probably say the British without giving it much thought. That would be an incorrect answer. We need to shift the focus ...

Traditionally, textbooks have described the mantle as a viscous, well-mixed layer that shifts along with tectonic plates, much like a conveyor belt. This theory has been a cornerstone of geology for ...

Perched on a basalt cliff on the rugged coast of Northern Ireland, Dunluce Castle is an imposing ruin that dominates the horizon of County Antrim. Isolated by its steep cliffs and surrounded by the ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery beneath Al-Khazneh, Petra’s famous Treasury building, may unlock secrets about its construction and the mysterious Nabatean civilization that built it. A team ...

An international team of scientists, composed of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid, Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus, and the University of California, has proposed a new ...

A team of researchers has made an important step in understanding the origins of modern Japanese people. Scientists were able to extract DNA from a Yayoi-era skeleton found at the famous ...

Major historical events are shaped by a series of contextual factors, whether they are economic, political, social, or all of these at once. But sometimes, there is also an apparently minor element ...