For decades, one of the most widely accepted theories in archaeology and the social sciences held that the introduction of agriculture in Europe, around 8,000 years ago, marked the inevitable ...

For decades, biology textbooks have taught us that primates — the group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans — originated in warm tropical rainforests. But a study published in the journal PNAS by ...

An international team of scientists has found what may be the first geochemical evidence from ocean sediments in the depths of Baffin Bay, near Greenland, supporting the controversial Younger Dryas ...

An international team of scientists has reconstructed the genetic history of horses in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 26,000 years, revealing a past that includes extinct lineages, ancestral ...

In 2013, in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, located in the northern Portuguese region of Alto Minho, the União das Freguesias de Grade e Carralcova was created—a merger of the two parishes of ...

Alaric I was a chieftain of the Tervingian tribe who is often considered the first historical king of the Visigoths. He is best known for having sacked Rome in 410 A.D., an unheard-of event that he ...

Almost everyone interested in ancient Rome is familiar with the name Sertorius. He was a Roman politician and general especially tied to the history of Spain because it was on this land that he fought ...

In the summer of 2024, during rescue excavations linked to the installation of an electric cable in the municipality of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda, in southern Bulgaria and just a few kilometers from the ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

Two recent studies led by Professor Stefano Profumo of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), propose innovative theories that seek to answer one of the most fundamental questions in modern ...

In the reddish lands of Hualongdong in China’s Anhui province, the discovery of a set of fossilized teeth estimated to be 300,000 years old challenges established narratives about human evolution in ...

The wall of the oppidum of Gergovia recently excavated. Credit: Romary / Wikimedia Commons After completing his consulship in 58 BCE, Caesar was appointed proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, ...