Fashioned in the shape of a snarling wild animal with "great big flappy ears," as Hinman described them, this bronze trumpet would have been mounted on a long mouthpiece and held high above warriors' ...

Nebuchadnezzar II claimed divine inspiration for his restoration work, stating that the gods Zababa and Ishtar motivated him to undertake the project. After completing the renovations, he proclaimed: ...

A groundbreaking bioarchaeological study from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge has shattered long-held assumptions about medieval migration patterns into England. Rather than arriving in ...

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...

Applying the longest average reign length from the historical period to the six pre-Alexander I monarchs yields a foundation date of 573 BC, which the researchers round to 575 BC. This mathematical ...

New research conducted by scientists at the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that Europe’s earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had ...

The ancient Romans believed that Neptune was the god of the sea. Although he is most commonly compared to the Greek god Poseidon, this had not always been the case. Originally, Neptune was a god of ...

Stand before the central altar of Scotland's legendary Rosslyn Chapel and look up. A stone face grins down at you, leaves spilling from its mouth, but something's wrong with its smile. The front left ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

The Kailasa Temple has been dubbed as ‘Cave 16’ of the Ellora Caves, and is notable for being the largest monolithic structure in the world that was carved out of a single piece of rock. Apart from ...