On an island midway between the United Kingdom and Ireland, a metal detectorist swept his device over the ground. A tell-tale ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

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Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

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

Warner Bros. announced the animated film "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim" is set to stream on Max beginning ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

A man who admitted cutting down trees in an ancient woodland has been fined £65,000. Saeed Nazir, of Owler Lane in Sheffield, ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed an ancient bronze spoon that Iron Age people may have used to forecast the future approximately 2,000 years ago. While this is the 28th potential “divination spoon” ...

According to Montero, the myth implies that, after a god’s passing, its essence gets imprisoned in a mundane creature, subject to the cycles of life and death. Axolotl then carries within itself the ...

In a Polish forest, metal detectorists discovered a Roman spatha sword, dating back over 1,700 years, near Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The sword, broken in two, might have been used by Vandal warriors ...