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 ...

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer right below it belongs to the hunters who lived there before them. The cave ...

When we think of Greek colonization, we think of Athens, Corinth or the cities of Euboea, which scattered new settlements ...

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer ...

The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...

For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting ...

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily's Valley of the Temples was where the ...

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world's political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch.

Physicists have been asking an awkward question for decades. If the universe is built from invisible fields, why has each one ...

Around 5,000 years ago, when writing was in its infancy and Egypt had just been united under a single king, the first ...