In the ever-changing world of fashion trends, this especially intimate accessory has lasted in one form or another since the ...

In Norse mythology, winters without summer herald the destruction of the gods. Could this legend preserve memories of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Brought up in Glasgow, Dr Tom Horne read Ancient and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, before working as a history researcher for the BBC. His introduction to archaeological excavations began ...

When Saladin sat down to supper in the spring of 1175, he was already one of the most significant figures in the Islamic world. The former commander of the Fatimid armies in Egypt had, within a decade ...