Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

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The city of Parthenope was one of the earliest ancient Greek settlements on the coast of what is now Naples, Italy.

Ancient societies in southern China pegged coffins into high cliffsides in burial ritual linked to good fortune ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

Just a stone's throw from Faro, the Roman ruins of Milreu reveal the magnificence of a perfectly preserved Roman villa. The archaeological site of Milreu, near the village of Estoi in the Algarve, is ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

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Diagoras was the first known atheist, whose bold critique of the gods was crucial in shaping early Greek secular thought.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...