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How Robert Guiscard Used an Impostor Monk to Try to Conquer the Byzantine Empire with a Norman Army
In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...
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Secret Room with Tubes Revealing Ritual Use of Hallucinogens to Govern More than 2000 Years Ago Found in Peru
Representation of the chamber or gallery where the tubes were discovered. This private chamber was of restricted access, suggesting that the consumption of psychedelics was a special ritual reserved ...
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The Mystery of the Parthenon’s Interior Lighting System in Antiquity Revealed
The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...
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British Isles tin enabled mass production of Bronze in Europe and the Mediterranean in the ancient world
A pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...
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Maya Tattoo Tools Discovered for the First Time
Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...
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Scientists Create a “Black Hole Bomb” in the Laboratory for the First Time
A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of black holes. The experiment ...
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Closer to the Theory of Everything: A new theory unifies the fundamental forces and changes our understanding of the universe
The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Credit: Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki / ...
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The Triton Baths in Southeastern Rome Were Converted into a Christian Church During Late Antiquity, Discovery Reveals
In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D. within the monumental complex of the Villa di Sette Bassi, discovered ...
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A Porticoed Road and a Bronze Panther Found in Augusta Raurica, the Best-Preserved Roman City North of the Alps
As part of a major construction project, the Cantonal Archaeology of Aargau carried out a rescue excavation between early May 2024 and the end of March 2025. This significantly expanded the knowledge ...
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A Third Roman Fortress Discovered in the Northern Sinai Peninsula
View of the site with an indication of recent finds. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt The Egyptian archaeological mission affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...
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Cuju, the Oldest Form of Soccer in the World Played in Ancient China
Emperors Taizu and Taizong, with Prime Minister Zhao Pu and other ministers, playing Cuju, by Qian Xuan (ca.1300). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women ...
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Pompeii Relives Its Last Day: Discoveries in the House of Helle and Phrixus Reveal a Desperate Attempt at Survival
In a city doomed to eternity by the fury of Vesuvius, every stone, every crack, and every object tells a story. The most recent comes from the House of Helle and Phrixus, a modestly sized yet richly ...