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The Tomb of Amphipolis built by Alexander the Great for Hephaestion was found to be aligned with the winter solstice
In 2012, the largest funerary monument of ancient Greece was discovered in Amphipolis, in central Macedonia: the Kasta tumulus or Amphipolis Tomb. In 2015, researchers were able to confirm that it had ...
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Monumental Dam Near Elche in Spain Discovered to Be a Roman Imperial Hydraulic Engineering Work
L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...
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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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Evidence of a Roman ritual with pig jaws found among remains of a legionary camp
A shallow pit in Area B, containing exclusively mandibles, maxillae and isolated pig teeth; based on a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) calculation, the assemblage represents at least 13 pigs.
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What Did Music Sound Like in Ancient Greece and Rome? A Study Uncovers Its Exact Tuning and Intonation with Mathematical Precision
What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...
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Obsidian Artifacts Found at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan Came from Enemy Territory
Aztec obsidian knives from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán Credit: JoaquinVilaG / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists from Tulane University and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute ...
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Ancient Marble Sculpture Workshop from the Hellenistic Period Discovered on the Island of Paros, with Numerous Unfinished Statues
Remains of the sculpture workshop found in Paros. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, ...
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The Earth’s Subsurface Holds an Clean Energy Source That Could Meet Human Energy Demand for 170,000 Years
In contrast to initiatives proposing energy solutions such as carbon storage or electrolysis powered by renewable energies—both still not commercially competitive—a study by the Universities of Oxford ...
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The Vatican Pharmacy is the most visited in the world, with over two thousand customers a day
Can a pharmacy be a tourist attraction? There is one that ranks first in the world in visits and has the particularity of being the only one in its country. It is, of course, the Vatican Pharmacy, ...
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Maya Tattoo Tools Discovered for the First Time
Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...