Surely everyone has heard at some point the adjective draconian, generally applied to laws or conditions, which the RAE defines as “excessively severe.” But do we know where that word comes from? It ...

Scandinavian archaeology has spent decades unearthing evidence of a conflict of enormous proportions in the wetlands of Eastern Jutland, a battle that researchers know as the Battle of Jutland and ...

The image that archaeology has maintained for decades regarding the origin of agriculture in the Near East is now facing a profound revision. An international team of researchers has published in the ...

From time to time the media inform us about some person, generally elderly, who has had to be assisted by social services because they live in a state of personal and social neglect, isolated in their ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities working in the southern Sinai Peninsula has brought to light one of the most significant rock art sites of recent decades, a ...

When Emperor Trajan concluded his campaigns in Dacia, at the beginning of the 2nd century, detachments from three Roman ...

Last October an exceptional piece traveled from Bavaria to the German capital inside a specially padded transport box, a shipment that had nothing to do with the usual transfers of geological samples ...

Some time ago we dedicated an article to the pigs that in Antiquity were used to frighten war elephants, according to ...

Last October an exceptional piece traveled from Bavaria to the German capital inside a specially padded transport box, a ...

The complex discovered in Ostia Antica contains a baptistery with a circular font and a large reception hall belonging to the ...

The National Museum of Scotland has added to its permanent collection two stone altars of exceptional craftsmanship from the ...

Construction work for the future MiQua, the Jewish Archaeological Museum rising over the heart of Cologne’s historic center, ...