When Brazilian paleontologists described a small meat-eating dinosaur in 2020, they took its name from Tupi, an Indigenous language of Brazil. Aratasaurus joins ara and atá, meaning “born” and “fire”, ...

The only ancient historian who explains why Rome invaded Britain points to a single exiled ruler. He gives the ruler's name ...

For nearly a century, the Roman villa at Realmonte, on the southern coast of Sicily, was read as what it seemed to be at ...

Several tombs in the Monte Abatone necropolis, a burial ground next to Cerveteri and about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Rome ...

English, German, Dutch and Swedish all descend from a single mother tongue that nobody ever wrote down. Linguists call it ...

For decades, many historians believed that the South Sámi, the Indigenous people of the mountains of central Norway and ...

Physicists have been chasing a particle decay for more than 40 years. According to the calculations, it happens just once for ...

An Egyptian official who lived some 4,400 years ago wanted to be remembered as a man who never took anything from anyone. His ...

On 29 October 2026, the Soprintendenza for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and ...

Some 3,500 years ago, someone climbed a hill on Naxos carrying a handful of pebbles from the beach and left them on the floor ...

It all began on 22 October 2026. That day, archaeologists Constantin Băjenaru and Cătălin Nopcea, of the Muzeul de Istorie ...

In 1806, the British traveler William Martin Leake was exploring Arcadia, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, convinced he had found the ruins of the ancient city of Thyrea. He was mistaken. But ...