In a cold library, a 12th-century scribe carefully works on a parchment. His task is to reproduce an older text, a document ...

For centuries, the composite bow has been a symbol of military and technological power in the ancient civilizations of ...

A team of researchers from Yale University has scientifically identified the contents of a valuable Egyptian alabaster vessel ...

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five ...

Saracens defeating mercenaries in the service of Byzantium at the Battle of Yarmouk (636 AD) according to a 14th-century illustrated manuscript. The flags of the crescent moon and star can be seen.

A study published in the journal PLOS ONE has precisely dated one of antiquity’s most dramatic events—the gigantic eruption of the Thera volcano (modern Santorini)—and compared it directly with the ...

The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for ...

Sometimes, the international political context makes it uncomfortable for a monarch to pass through a foreign country. Other ...

Where a stormwater retention basin is now planned, archaeologists have uncovered an unexpected testimony of Roman presence in ...

Although the most famous one was carried out by the Ottomans in 1453, which definitively ended the Byzantine Empire, ...

In 2011, during construction work for a university library in the Croatian city of Osijek, archaeologists stumbled upon a ...

A year after its acquisition by National Museums Scotland, initial conservation work on the Peebles Hoard has begun to ...