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In the Roman world, writing was everywhere, from imperial monuments to everyday objects. Political graffiti, love poems, epitaphs, commercial transactions, birthday invitations, and even magical ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of ...

A team of scientists led by David Amblàs, from the Consolidated Research Group in Marine Geosciences at the University of Barcelona, and Riccardo Arosio, from University College Cork (Ireland), has ...

Sleep remains one of the great enigmas of science, and despite its importance for physical and mental health, many of its mechanisms still have no explanation. Now, research from the University of ...

An international team of researchers has published a study attempting to clarify the shape, appearance, and characteristics of a curious artifact from the Greco-Roman era—the so-called Spoon of ...

A team of archaeologists led by Davide Zori, Ph.D., principal investigator of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) and associate professor of history and archaeology at Baylor ...

A piece of defensive weaponry manufactured more than three millennia ago during the final phase of the Bronze Age has recently been identified among the fragments of an archaeological assemblage ...

On the southeastern coast of Sicily near the town of Santa Maria del Focallo in the territory of Ispica (Ragusa), a team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of a Greek ship dating from the ...

View of the excavation of the newly discovered port in Corsica. Credit: Brice Chevaux / Inrap As part of a single-family home construction project in the marina of Meria, on the Cap Corse peninsula ...

A new scientific study published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports has revisited the debate over the origin of Stonehenge’s iconic bluestones. It focuses on a rock known as the Newall ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a group of researchers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max ...