Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, ...
Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades ...
Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades ...
A base camp on a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River shows how Ice Age hunters lived on the land that once joined Asia and North America. It had a pit oven, a stone anvil and diamond-shaped stone points ...
The House of Oldenburg began as a line of counts in the marshes of northwest Germany. Over the centuries it placed kings and emperors on the thrones of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Britain and ...
View of the apse and choir of the mountain-top church during excavations in 2022. Credit: A. Guicheteau, Inrap Archaeologists excavating a wooded hill in Burgundy have found a large church, buildings ...
The pillar with the 56-oracle inscription in the place of discovery. Credit: Kileci, Ş., Tüner Önen, N., & Özüdoğru, Ş. 2026 / Excavation Archive A limestone pillar found in 2024 at Kibyra, in ...
Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther ...
Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, ...
Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were ...
Thirty-five thousand spectators. That is the capacity the authors of a new study attribute to the Roman amphitheatre of Itálica, in Santiponce, near Seville in southern Spain. It is roughly the crowd ...
Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus ...