Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study argues that the Sun will shed its outer layers in about 4,600 lopsided bursts rather than a smooth breeze. Each burst would nudge the giant planets just enough to scramble their orbits, ...

Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were destroyed or emptied, writing disappeared from much of the region, and ...

The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...

Anyone who wants to build a house on the waterfront at Meria, at the northern tip of Corsica, has to let archaeologists look ...

About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years ago.

Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were ...

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state ...

Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus ...

The shoulder blade is such a wide and flat bone that in some areas it becomes almost translucent when held up to the light.