The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

Towards the end of Domination, Alice Roberts describes the Apostle Paul as “anti-intellectual”, based on her reading of the ...

Reindeer are such icons of Christmas that today they pull sleighs through shopping malls. But these beautiful animals were ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

Long thought to be an assortment of mysterious holes near Stonehenge, researchers have now used new technologies to better ...

For ancient craftspeople, who had to fashion everything by hand, specialized tools such as saws and awls must have been among their most prized possessions. For a people as artistically accomplished ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

A Roman mosaic found in Britain has revealed a version of the Trojan War that was previously lost to history. According to ...

Evidence of human activity dating back almost 6,000 years has been discovered by archaeologists working at the Palace of ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...