Most of the wood is firewood, including branches and trunks up to 7.2 meters long. Two spears came from Level R: one is 2.45 ...

A metal detectorist who recovered one of Scotland's most important Bronze Age treasures has struck again, lifting a second ...

A young horseman buried more than 2,000 years ago in southern Russia went to his grave with weapons, his horse and a gold ...

A coded letter sent on Napoleon Bonaparte's orders in March 1809 has finally been read, 217 years after it was written. The ...

And then success can create room to build, provide, repair, and serve. The Stoics knew this. They were not naïve about the uses of wealth or the consequences of rank. Yet today, Stoicism is often ...

A man who died in the Ecuadorian Andes more than 3,000 years ago has a face again. An international team has completed a ...

On the second night, the seer Ezra dreams of an eagle rising from the sea. It has twelve feathered wings and three heads. It ...

A new study of ancient DNA indicates that the ancestors of modern Native Americans first arrived in the New World not earlier ...

After three weeks in the mountains, the Secrets of the Ice team has announced that 48 prehistoric arrows like the beauty ...

Now those corroded coins have achieved something no medieval manuscript could: they have proved that a busy English ...

For now the ossuary stays in storage rather than on public display, a limestone box at the centre of a question archaeology ...

A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...