The fossil of a crocodile skull discovered nearly a century ago in Egypt has been identified as belonging to a newly recognized genus, changing scientists’ understanding of crocodile evolution in the ancient Mediterranean. Researchers concluded this after re-examining the...
Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered a rare 2,500-year-old bronze chariot at Casas del Turuñuelo, a site in Guareña, Badajoz, shedding new light on the lost world of Tartessos, an ancient first-millennium BC culture of southwestern Iberia shaped by interaction...
Greek soldiers who took part in war during the archaic period in the Mediterranean did far more than fight. A new study argues they served as cultural carriers who quietly transformed art, religion, and ethnic identity across the ancient...
For years, historians believed that the ancient Carthaginians were largely of Phoenician origin, having descended from settlers who migrated from the Levant. However, new genetic research challenges that view, revealing that ancient Carthage, located in present-day Tunisia, had a...
