The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later sold on the art market.

Portrait of a scholar (Archimedes?). Domenico Fetti, 1620.Early life and educationArchimedes was born into a family connected to the ruling elite of ...

Researchers initially thought the tomb belonged to a royal wife. Then they unearthed fragments of alabaster jars that identified it as Thutmose II's

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

« Laissez-moi vous raconter comment tout cela s’est passé », commence Lucy Durán. À Londres, c’est enfin le printemps, et la célèbre ...

For decades, the story of how human pigmentation changed as Homo sapiens spread across Europe has been told in broad strokes. Early humans arrived from ...

Once a part of marriage proposals, maritozzi are making a comeback in Italy and around the world

Prof Alice Roberts/BBC/Rare TV A groundbreaking discovery in England is shaking the foundations of our understanding of Anglo-Saxon history. An almost ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other odors

For centuries, human remains recovered from the River Thames have puzzled archaeologists. Were they the result of accidental drownings, burials disturbed by ...