At the narrowest point of the Karmsundet, the channel that separates the island of Karmøy from the mainland on Norway’s west ...
They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs.
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, ...
The House of Oldenburg began as a line of counts in the marshes of northwest Germany. Over the centuries it placed kings and emperors on the thrones of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Britain and ...
View of the apse and choir of the mountain-top church during excavations in 2022. Credit: A. Guicheteau, Inrap Archaeologists excavating a wooded hill in Burgundy have found a large church, buildings ...
A dig beside the famous Greek temples of Agrigento, in Sicily, has uncovered a previously unknown neighborhood of the ancient city of Akragas, with walls that collapsed when Carthage besieged it in ...
Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades ...
Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, ...
Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus ...
Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were ...
The shoulder blade is such a wide and flat bone that in some areas it becomes almost translucent when held up to the light.
Thirty-five thousand spectators. That is the capacity the authors of a new study attribute to the Roman amphitheatre of Itálica, in Santiponce, near Seville in southern Spain. It is roughly the crowd ...