Nathan Falde

After a couple of hundred years of Viking raids, payments of tens of thousands of pounds of silver in protection money, and conquests over the Anglo-Saxons, by the year 1002 it seems King Aethelred II

The pace of human physical development is slower than that of other primates, meaning that it takes us longer to move from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.

One of the most remarkable ancient musical instruments ever discovered is the so-called Aztec death whistle.

Archaeologist Alan Endacott has devoted the last two decades to searching for new stone circles in Dartmoor, a vast stretch of relatively desolate moorland in the uplands of Devon in southern England.

A ship that sunk in Norway’s deepest lake several centuries ago has been identified as a føringsbåt, a type of boat that was used to haul cargo and passengers between 1300 and 1900 AD.

Until now, no one had ever found a sign of the zodiac encoded in Egyptian rock art.

Michael Hanaghan /The Conversation When Gladiator I was released in 2000, I was a high school Classics student and the film brought Classical literature to life for me.

A recent study revealed many new details about the manufacture, material composition, and cultural importance of Late Bronze Age swords recovered during various 20th century excavations on Spain’s Bal

A recent discovery in Gibraltar has unveiled one of the most advanced manufacturing sites of the ancient world: a Neanderthal tar distillation oven dating back 65,000 years.

In the quiet and peaceful village of Aquileia, in northern Italy near the Adriatic Sea coast, archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) found