For more than seven decades, phosphorus has represented one of the great paradoxes in the study of the origin of life. This element, indispensable for the existence of living beings as we know them, forms the structural backbone of DNA and RNA, allows cells to store and transfer energy through the molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), […]
The waters surrounding Elba Island have once again yielded evidence of its millennia-old past. A dolium from the Roman era and a presumed shipwreck, still under study, have been located on the seabed of the Tuscan Archipelago during the underwater heritage monitoring operations that the ABAP Soprintendenza for the provinces of Pisa and Livorno has […]
Excavations carried out during the past month of July in the monumental complex of Guadalupe (Extremadura, Spain) have brought to light the foundation remains of the former Hospedería of the Catholic Monarchs (Guesthouse of the Catholic Monarchs), a lost historic building that has nothing to do with the current Hospedería del Real Monasterio that operates […]
A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the Koskarlı cave approximately 14,000 years ago. The remains found during the first excavation campaign, conducted in 2024, confirm that the site was inhabited by human groups during the Epipaleolithic period, a transitional stage between the Upper Paleolithic and […]
The archaeological research in the ancient sanctuary of Apollo in Gortyna, the famed Cretan city whose epigraphic legislation marked a milestone in the history of Greek law, has concluded its summer season with a series of findings that consolidate the importance of the site as a first-class religious center during the formation of the polis. […]
The 2016 discovery of a large mass grave in the ancient cemetery of Phaleron, on the coast of Athens, shocked the archaeological community and the general public. There lay the remains of 79 adult men, many still with metal shackles, arranged in three parallel rows. Since then, researchers have debated who these individuals were: pirates, […]
A team of researchers from the University of Burgos and the Atapuerca Foundation has published the first detailed analysis of the bone retouchers found in the Valdegoba cave, in the municipality of Huérmeces (Burgos). This site, occupied by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic, has yielded 38 bone fragments that were used as tools to retouch […]
For decades, paleontologists have used the presence of stones inside the skeletons of dinosaurs as an indicator that the animal was herbivorous. These stones, known as gastroliths, have been found in numerous species and were assumed to serve to grind plant material in the stomach, just like many birds do today. However, this relationship has […]
The Egyptian archaeological mission under the authority of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has brought to light, during excavation work carried out in the archaeological area of Kom el-Khilgan, in the Dakahlia Governorate, a necropolis whose origins date back to the Predynastic Period and whose use continued through the Greek and Roman eras, together with […]
Researchers from the University of Catania, in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Catania and the Valley of the Aci, have located beneath the stage of the Teatro Antico a network of underground channels that in Roman times was used to intercept and evacuate groundwater toward the sea. The discovery, the result of a geoarchaeological […]
The research, published in the journal Science, was led by Richard F. Kay, emeritus professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The work, which used a unique collection of skulls mostly from the Natural History Museum of the Duke […]
A ritual well with unique characteristics has emerged in the archaeological area of the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua, near Marzabotto, in a discovery that the scientific community is already describing as extraordinary. Located within the sacred precinct dedicated to the deity Uni, the well has brought to light a collection of exceptionally crafted objects […]
The history of the Roman Empire is often told through the exploits of emperors and generals, but the mechanisms of daily administration and, especially, the relationships between central power and the provinces, constitute an equally revealing field of study to understand the dynamics of that civilization. In this context, the discovery and subsequent analysis of […]
Megaliths —those enormous stone blocks that have stood for millennia— continue to fascinate archaeologists and the general public. A recent compilation of books published between 2025 and 2026 shows that, although research has advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to new technologies, some fundamental questions remain without definitive answers. Who built these monuments? Why did […]
What lies beneath one of the most important fortified settlements of Hellenistic Calabria? A study combining archaeology and geophysics has begun to answer this question. Thanks to the application of sophisticated subsurface exploration techniques, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Catania has succeeded in identifying anomalies compatible with buried structures at the Castiglione di […]
The death, which radiocarbon dating places between 3932 and 3653 B.C., surprised an individual at approximately forty weeks of gestation in the rock shelter of Ripari Altí, at 1,100 meters above sea level, within the current Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. The archaeological context points to the final phases of the Neolithic, a period in which […]
Excavations carried out as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) have brought to light an architectural complex of incalculable value in the heart of Villa Celimontana. Under the supervision of the Special Superintendency of Rome of the Ministry of Culture, the work has uncovered eight rooms belonging to an Imperial-era building whose […]
More than 500 meters beneath the Earth’s surface, a dark and ancient world teems with fungal life on a scale scientists had never imagined. A research team led by the University of Michigan has, for the first time, quantified the abundance of fungi in a deep subsurface site, reaching depths of up to 500 meters, […]
Excavations by the University of Catania at the Tava Tepe site, located in western Azerbaijan, have uncovered an archaeological complex that upends established notions about Late Bronze Age communities in the Caucasus region. What was initially interpreted as an isolated domestic structure, dated to around 1300–1000 BCE, has turned out to be the last link […]
The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the completion of the excavation and restoration works of an ancient pool located in the frigidarium of the monumental complex known as the Hamam Gymnasium, within the ancient city of Tralleis, in the province of Aydın. The newly restored structure has remarkable dimensions: […]
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