This latest book to add to this history is The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman, which addresses both themes of English unification and viking politics. It ...

Archaeologists working in Uzbekistan's Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter have unearthed what could be the world's oldest arrowheads, dating back an astonishing 80,000 years. These triangular stone "micropoints ...

In 1900, potato-harvesting children first found three bronze daggers in the area, with only one surviving today in the Görlitz Museum after the others disappeared during World War II. A socketed axe ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Aigai in western Turkey have uncovered a remarkable temple dedicated to Demeter, goddess of agriculture and fertility, containing nearly 1,000 ...

In 329 BC, Alexander was on a roll. When he crossed the Hellespont back in 334 BC, he had been determined to put himself at the head of the Achaemenid Empire, and he was well on the way to doing so, ...

One of the most intriguing myths of ancient Greece is that of the Minotaur on the island of Crete, the bull-headed human-animal hybrid of Greek mythology. The story of the bestial Minotaur trapped in ...

The Swan Helmet of Tintignac is a rare, intricately designed artifact that reveals the spiritual and artistic traditions of the Gaulish tribes in ancient France. Featuring a sculpted swan, the helmet ...

An international research team has identified the world's earliest known evidence of Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans in a 140,000-year-old child's skeleton discovered in Israel's Skhul Ca ...

One of the famous brothels in ancient Pompeii was called the Lupanare (Latin for wolf’s den). Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this was a two-story building built just years before the destruction of ...

Jane Kershaw/The ConversationIn the archaeology galleries of the Yorkshire Museum, an incredible Viking silver neck-ring takes centre stage.

What happened to the enigmatic Therapeutae, and what was their place in ancient history? The Therapeutae were primarily located near Lake Mareotis, close to Alexandria in Egypt. This city was a ...

Every culture has an explanation about how we got here. The ancient Greeks were no different. The dramatic story of the origins of humanity in Greek mythology involves love, pain, and a hefty dose of ...