The most striking find is a heavily damaged wooden hull located inside the harbor, pinned down by a pile of ballast stones. The ship's planks were connected by wooden treenails, a typical 18th-century ...

The word ‘wizard’ is derived from the Middle English word ‘wys’ (meaning wise) and the suffix ‘-ard.’ Therefore, a wizard was basically a wise man, up until around the middle of the 16th century AD.

An amateur metal detectorist scanning a quiet field in South Somerset has made a spectacular discovery that is rewriting our understanding of late third-century Roman Britain. Kev ...

The ocean floor is a realm of eternal darkness, holding secrets that often challenge our understanding of history and science. Among the most hotly debated underwater mysteries of the 21st century is ...

Paris has long been a city built on its own past, but rarely has that truth been made quite so literal as it is today beneath ...

A comprehensive study of Mycenaean gold working opens the doors to the goldsmith’s workshop of 3500 years ago. Researchers analyzed 165 gold objects from tholos (beehive) tombs near the Bay of Volos ...

First discovered in 1912 by the prominent British geologist William Sollas and the French archaeologist Abbé Henri Breuil, the markings were initially celebrated as the first specimen of prehistoric ...

A spectacular archaeological investigation in Barcelona has stunned historians by unearthing the skeletal remains of Queen Elisenda of Montcada, one of medieval Europe’s most influential rulers.

When archaeologists came across a tin containing an unknown 2000-year-old ointment they were both pleased and bemused. It was not discovered in a home as one might think, but rather near an ancient ...

History does not only survive in temples, treasures, and royal tombs. Sometimes it waits in severed hands, headless skeletons, plague graves, sacrificial children, and bodies preserved so perfectly ...

To mitigate this danger, Ming Dynasty physicians developed elaborate pharmaceutical recipes to process the raw tuberous roots. Historical texts indicate that these toxic plants were boiled in vinegar, ...

The military prestige of Alexander’s successors, otherwise known as Diadochi, has now reached its zenith in the person of King Pyrrhus of Epirus. But the fledgling state of Rome is still trying to ...