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Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...
Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...
When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...
HISTORY enthusiasts and curious locals alike are invited to the annual Dún Ailinne Open Day, taking place this Sunday, July 6 ...
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, who once ruled over what is now modern-day ...
In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...
These monumental halls, older than Stonehenge, offer new clues about community gatherings and rituals. Hidden treasures from ...
Aberdeen geoologists confirmed that cracks in the Earth, called volcanic fissures, helped create many of the Inner Hebrides.
The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...
A rare form of leprosy may have existed in the Americas long before European colonization, according to new research using ...
In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery ...
Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.