The iconic group of stars known as the Pleiades—that handful of bright points visible in the winter sky that has guided ...

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the ...

An archaeological excavation campaign in the Fondo ex Pasqualis, at the southeastern corner of the ancient Roman city of ...

Some time ago we talked here about the Beaver Wars, one of the bloodiest conflicts in North American history, if not the ...

A team of Chinese archaeologists has unearthed in the westernmost part of the Tarim Basin the remains of what was a ...

Mercenary armies have been a reality throughout history, documented as early as the 2nd millennium BCE, especially remembered ...

For the first time, the parade ground of the Toulon naval base — a space historically off-limits to scientific scrutiny — is ...

The depopulation of large urban centers—a phenomenon that has shaped the course of history time and again—is often attributed ...

An extensive row of more than five thousand cavities, drilled with geometric precision into the arid slope of a Peruvian hill ...

Here we have devoted several articles to the use of animals in warfare—some more or less common (horses, elephants, dogs), ...

The official history, consolidated for decades in archaeology manuals, maintained that the Picts, those enigmatic peoples of ...

An international team of researchers has detected the presence of two air-filled anomalies behind the polished eastern façade ...