The biggest challenge in theoretical physics for more than a century has been to develop a unified theory that combines ...

Two thousand years before the Inca Empire extended its dominion over the Andes, a much less known yet culturally influential ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought ...

The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens housed a colossal statue made of gold and ivory, carved by the famous sculptor Phidias in 438 BC. Its view from the entrance of the temple must have ...

As part of a major construction project, the Cantonal Archaeology of Aargau carried out a rescue excavation between early May ...

In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D ...

The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of a group of ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, ...

For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer, a pastime, ...

In a city doomed to eternity by the fury of Vesuvius, every stone, every crack, and every object tells a story. The most ...

Throughout its long history, Rome achieved numerous military victories that allowed it to grow, expand, and dominate nearly ...