Like giant frozen time capsules, Europe’s glaciers have locked away countless secrets from the past.Perfectly preserved in the ice, artefacts…
Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution.The ancient human nicknamed…
The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire’s collapse, archaeologists say.A team of researchers…
A 61-year-old tourist is facing a decade behind bars in Greece after stealing an ancient marble column.The German man was…
When Howard Carter unsealed the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 it proved to be one of history’s greatest discoveries.For a…
More than 100 years after Tutankhamun’s tomb was dramatically uncovered, British Egyptologists have made an equally remarkable find. Experts made the discovery…
Egyptian mummies embalmed in scented oils and waxes for their journey to the afterlife still smell rather nice today.Centuries after…
The thought of eating human brain is enough to make even the most adventurous eater feel queasy. But a new study…
Mount Vesuvius’ most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples,…
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