A large and well-organised army from Norway in the year 205, organised in the Roman way. Here are some of the objects as they were found in the bog. Credit: Jørgen Ilkjær / Moesgård Museum The ...

Last October an exceptional piece traveled from Bavaria to the German capital inside a specially padded transport box, a shipment that had nothing to do with the usual transfers of geological samples ...

He was a friend of Xenophon — who was his best biographer — and an extraordinary military commander whose abilities helped ...

Storms that have battered the British coastline in recent weeks produced an exceptional discovery on the east coast of ...

For nearly two millennia, every autumn, a procession of devotees traveled the 20 kilometers separating Athens from the city ...

L, but it was later renamed Antisthenes. It was in memory of an ancient Greek philosopher whom we discussed in another ...

A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has published a study that challenges the traditional theory about how the ...

For centuries, the windows of the most luxurious villas of Pompeii, the baths of Emperor Caligula, and the greenhouses where ...

A few kilometers from Rome, beneath the crystal-clear waters of Lake Bracciano, lies the site of La Marmotta, a submerged ...

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a surprisingly simple process: gravitational collapse. For years, the scientific ...

In northern Vietnam, about 70 kilometers from Hanoi, lies the Dong Xa archaeological site. There, in the late 1990s, archaeologists unearthed dozens of ancient graves. Among the skeletons, something ...

For decades, one theory has fascinated historians and the general public: the idea that the Roman Empire fell, at least in ...