The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

Jewelry in a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was Pagan until the fifth ...

Archaeologists working at two separate sites in Europe have made strikingly similar discoveries beneath former department ...

Antoni Gaudí, who designed the extraordinary basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, has been declared “Venerable”. That is a step towards sainthood which recognises the heroic virtues of the ...

Archaeological excavations at Gloucester's former Debenhams store have uncovered the remains of a medieval church and ...

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Games, gowns, Latin and the birch (or their modern equivalents: PE, blazers, applied maths and permanent exclusion) all seem to be of an era long past the Elizabethan age with which Nicholas Orme ends ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In fact, in early medieval England, around the year 1000, there was also a strong appetite for word puzzles designed to entertain (and ...

With grand architecture, vibrant street art, some of Bulgaria’s best museums and a knockout food scene, Sofia has all the ingredients of an unforgettable city break.

Now that the WrestleMania 41 plans have fully leaned into the massive showdown featuring CM Punk, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, this era of superb WWE storytelling can pull on a hanging thread ...

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...