The photo, Ancient Light, captures the glowing band of the Milky Way stretching above an abandoned barn in East Sussex’s Balsdean Valley.

The photo, Ancient Light, captures the glowing band of the Milky Way stretching above an abandoned barn in East Sussex’s ...

Cornwall is home to many great towns and villages, but this ancient spot is a great option and is close to one of England's ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, and traveling.

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

Around 2400 BC, the people who had built Stonehenge and other massive Neolithic monuments effectively vanished. Previous ancient DNA studies showed that they were replaced by newcomers with Steppe ...

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe survived for thousands of years longer than anywhere else on the continent—and ...

Encephalitis lethargica is an illness that attacks the brain, leaving the victims like living statues—speechless and motionless. This disease turned into a full-blown epidemic around the world in the ...

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...

Public bathing has been around for thousands of years. But ancient practices stand in stark contrast to the modern bathhouse ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Don’t feel like watching football on Super Bowl Sunday? Here are some cool concerts and other fun non-pigskin-related things ...