The institutional collaboration between the Soprintendenza ABAP for the metropolitan area of Rome and the province of Rieti ...

For centuries, the majestic temples of classical Greece, with the Parthenon at the forefront, have been studied, measured, ...

Beneath the relentless transparency of the Ionian Sea, a few miles off the coast of the Italian town of Gallipoli, on the ...

In winter, when the days are shorter and the land seems to sleep, ancient Athenian women prepared for one of the most secret ...

Imagine the bustle of a central street at dusk. The sound of conversation, the clinking of glasses, the smell of meat grilling. This is not a scene from a modern tavern in Plaka, but the image the ...

A preliminary study, based on a new method for dating ancient structures, suggests that the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza could be tens of thousands of years older than what traditional Egyptology ...

View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...

Surely everyone has heard at some point the adjective draconian, generally applied to laws or conditions, which the RAE defines as “excessively severe.” But do we know where that word comes from? It ...

An international team of geologists believes it has deciphered, after one hundred and fifty years of scientific debate and ...

An international team of archaeologists and paleontologists has announced the discovery of physical evidence unique in Europe: an elephant bone dated to the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). The find, a ...

Granada Venegas is the surname borne by the descendants of a Nasrid family that did not maintain good relations with the rest ...

An international team of astronomers has taken a close look at three distant galaxies and discovered that, in their central regions, something is missing in terms of mass. Or, more precisely, that ...