As recently as the 20th century, a major killer disease in the UK was ‘marsh fever’ or ‘ague’ – or malaria by another name ...

For centuries, ground-up mummy was a medical mainstay in Europe – but that was far from the only way that ancient remains ...

Sigurd the Stout’s mother promised that her banner would win him a battle, but warned that its bearer would die. Judith Jesch ...

Despite there being no evidence that he existed, belief in an impossibly powerful and wealthy ruler of a Christian empire in ...

Older and much bigger than the Parthenon, this white marble monument in modern-day Turkey became the model for ancient Greek ...

Stories of a remarkable birth, promises of salvation and the announcement of “good news” surrounded Rome’s first emperor.

He survived battlefield wounds and conquered an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India. So when Alexander the ...

Soviet investigators had obtained compelling evidence of Hitler’s death – but Moscow’s public statements told a different ...

Rome attributed its founding, religious institutions and early political organisation to seven kings. These mythical monarchs ...

Why would our Iron Age forebears smash craniums and sharpen bones? A forensic archaeological study suggests these were acts ...