He was a friend of Xenophon — who was his best biographer — and an extraordinary military commander whose abilities helped ...

Last October an exceptional piece traveled from Bavaria to the German capital inside a specially padded transport box, a shipment that had nothing to do with the usual transfers of geological samples ...

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a ...

Storms that have battered the British coastline in recent weeks produced an exceptional discovery on the east coast of ...

For nearly two millennia, every autumn, a procession of devotees traveled the 20 kilometers separating Athens from the city ...

L, but it was later renamed Antisthenes. It was in memory of an ancient Greek philosopher whom we discussed in another ...

For centuries, the windows of the most luxurious villas of Pompeii, the baths of Emperor Caligula, and the greenhouses where ...

A few kilometers from Rome, beneath the crystal-clear waters of Lake Bracciano, lies the site of La Marmotta, a submerged ...

In northern Vietnam, about 70 kilometers from Hanoi, lies the Dong Xa archaeological site. There, in the late 1990s, archaeologists unearthed dozens of ancient graves. Among the skeletons, something ...

Imagine an object so colossal that, if it occupied the place of our Sun, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn. Imagine a star that challenges not only the known physical limits, but ...

A team of archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University has achieved what until now seemed like a chimera in the study of ancient societies: identifying elderly members of a community not through their ...

A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has published a study that challenges the traditional theory about how the ...