Vermeer First painted the House in his Famous Painting "The Little Street" with a closed Door

Neanderthals used cave lion bones as multi-purpose tools 130,000 years ago in Scladina Cave, revealing advanced skills

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An IPHES-BÚSQUEDA team has found a flint arrowhead embedded in the rib of an adult human at the prehistoric site of Roc de les Orenetes in Ripollès. The projectile, according to researchers, is eviden...

Archaeologists from ArcheoScan have unearthed a rare gravestone depicting a medieval knight during excavations in the centre of Gdańsk, Poland. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

In a well near the Italian city of Faenza, close to Ravenna, archaeologists found the remains of a baby who lived during the Copper Age, approximately 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. What was surprising was...

You can see the recently identified "interstellar object" 3I/ATLAS shooting towards us through the solar system in a livestream from the Virtual Telescope Project.

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the jo...

Intact Etruscan tomb found in San Giuliano Necropolis sheds new light on ancient burial rituals and social customs in central Italy.

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

ROME, ITALY—A colossal marble head was uncovered beneath Rome’s Via Alessandrina, according to a report […]

Researchers have successfully demonstrated quantum speedup in kernel-based machine learning.

The founders of the Microbiota Vault, a project that aims to preserve microbial diversity, have announced that they are ready to grow their frozen microbe collection to 10,000 samples by 2029.

São Paulo, Brazil – The fall of a tree deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest has revealed a valuable secret that is now being carefully analyzed by a team of Brazilian researchers and archaeologi...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest exoplanet ever detected.

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds.

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the Colombian coast in 1708 with treasure worth billions on board

The largest ever collections of a painted Roman wall plaster have been unearthed in London’s Southwark area, pieced together after 1,800 odd years from amongst the remains of an early Roman building,

“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” the artist, Salvatore Garau, said of his sculpture.

Researchers atGhent University have reconstructed the visage of a pale, dark-haired, blue-eyed prehistoric woman who lived 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium.

A Union Jack Flown from HMS Spartiate at The Battle of Trafalgar

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface...

People across the internet are in awe of this remarkable red sprite sighting!

At first, people thought the toad might be a hoax, but it turned out to be very real and more common than you might think.

Archaeologists discover a 16th-century shipwreck 2.5 km deep off Saint-Tropez, revealing rare ceramics and maritime history.

A surprisingly large leather shoe has been found at Magna, a Roman fort in northern England.

A woman went to the emergency room after getting bits of a venomous spider in her eye.

Researchers have filmed a living Antarctic gonate squid in a world-first sighting deep in the ocean surrounding Antarctica.

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

The oil painting fell "into obscurity", with no-one realising who it was by until it was cleaned in 2024.

Three tombs 'made by pure Egyptian hands' have been found in the archaeological site of Dra Abu el-Naga on the Luxor West Bank, Egypt.

The skull of a young woman found at a Copper Age cemetery in Iran has revealed evidence of cranial modification along with a serious traumatic injury.

Archaeologists from the University of Alicante and the University of Zaragoza have discovered over 100 prehistoric structures within the Cova Dones cave system in Valencia, Span. - HeritageDaily - Arc...

WSU researchers have revived Ancient Egyptian Blue, the world’s oldest synthetic pigment, revealing secrets of ancient Egypt..

Several significant Viking-era discoveries have been made in Täby, Sweden, where archaeologists from Arkeologerna have uncovered a large silver hoard alongside the remains of an extensive farming sett...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old human relatives.

The discovery of a 43,000-year-old fingerprint in Spain is challenging the idea that Neanderthals were not capable of symbolic art.

The president’s approach to tariffs has spawned a new Wall Street acronym. Now, AI-generated Taco Trump images are flooding X and Bluesky.

A 1,600-year-old mosaic from a Byzantine monastery is now on public display in Israel’s Negev, revealing ancient life through artwork.

Discover the story of the "Ice Prince of Mattsies," a 1,350-year-old elite child burial uncovered in southern Germany.

Newly attributed painting to be unveiled after a heroic conservation effort following serious damage from the Beirut explosion in 2020

South American mummies have become known for their impressive tattoos, but an analysis has found the design inked into the cheek of an approximately 800-year-old woman buried in the region is unique i...

Ancient sculpture workshop uncovered in Paros reveals Hellenistic art, unfinished statues, and tools of ancient Greek sculptors.

An ancient Chinese star chart (the Star Manual of Master Shi) dated to 355 BCE may be the world's oldest, reshaping astronomical history

Learn how Homo erectus journeyed to the Indonesian island of Java, leaving behind fossils that now provide insight on the species' life before extinction.