After 1,400 years lying undisturbed beneath British farmland, an ancient Anglo-Saxon warrior had a rude awakening in 2018 when a group of amateur metal detectorists stumbled across his burial site and ...

The toppled head of Augustus spent centuries buried underneath the door to an invading force's victory shrine Trustees of the British Museum "Pussy Hat," 2017 Trustees of the British Museum James ...

In the waters off the coasts of Israel and Southern France, divers have recovered cargoes that hint at a mystery spanning thousands of years: blocks of tin, cast into ingots, carried by ancient ships.

The Second Plague Pandemic of the mid-14th century, also known as the Black Death, killed 30-60 percent of the European population and profoundly changed the course of European history. New research ...