I FEEL about six years old, hands and knees covered in thick mud, as I emerge from a tunnel only big enough to crawl through, first used by Christian settlers more than 1,200 years ago to escape ...

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For centuries, the imposing and majestic Norwegian Forest Cat has ruled as one of Scandinavia’s most iconic animals. With ...

In Vergina, a small town in northern Greece, Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos found proof of Macedonia's Greek roots.

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder ...

The poignant figures, frozen in time, humanize an ancient natural disaster ... “This opens again the doors [to] a new way to ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of Pompeii and everyone in it. The "Pompeii eruption" covered everything in a layer ...

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

For those who want to see the darker side of history, a York attraction has held an event celebrating the gory side of history.