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 ...

Archaeologists working ahead of a parking lot in the Sardinian village of Loculi have exposed a 700-square-metre site with remains from the Bronze Age to post-medieval times. Among them is a fragment ...

Dog paw prints on a Bronze Age mud brick in Türkiye. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture Turkish archaeologists have found 4,000-year-old paw prints pressed into a mudbrick from a Bronze Age house ...

Inscription found at the Roman Baths of Fortuna in Spain. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Fortuna A stone block with letters 9 inches tall has been pulled from a wall at a Roman spa in southeastern Spain. It ...

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 ...