About 7,300 years ago, roughly 30 km (19 miles) south of Japan’s Kyushu island, a submarine volcano erupted with a force that ...
In April 2008, a genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics fundamentally changed how we tell the ...
In 2011, an amateur astronomer near Toronto, Adam Szewczyk, was going through star brightness charts at home when one caught ...
Visitors looking for the Roman port of Lecce, in the heel of Italy’s boot, usually end up at San Cataldo, a small seaside village about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the city. A stone pier still juts ...
The only ancient historian who explains why Rome invaded Britain points to a single exiled ruler. He gives the ruler’s name as “Bericus” and treats him as a man. Nearly two centuries after the event, ...
Bronze is mostly copper with a smaller share of tin, and the copper that prehistoric miners could reach was scattered unevenly across Europe. When researchers ask where the continent’s Bronze Age ...
Archaeologists digging at Riparo Mochi knew exactly what they needed when they uncovered a prehistoric hearth wedged between ...
Visitors looking for the Roman port of Lecce, in the heel of Italy's boot, usually end up at San Cataldo, a small seaside ...
Alfonso María de Borbón y Borbón was a great-great-grandson of Carlos III, the son of a princely Carlist marriage and a ...
Three kilometres (about two miles) north of the town of Juigalpa, in the Chontales department of central Nicaragua, the hills ...
For nearly a century, the Roman villa at Realmonte, on the southern coast of Sicily, was read as what it seemed to be at ...
When Brazilian paleontologists described a small meat-eating dinosaur in 2020, they took its name from Tupi, an Indigenous language of Brazil. Aratasaurus joins ara and atá, meaning “born” and “fire”, ...