While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

Some old Scandinavian writings trace kings back to Christ’s birth, once dismissed as mere tales—but perhaps there’s truth in ...

Talking on Iron Age settlements in the Jordan Valley, the professor Zeidan Kafafi noted that it has already been published ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents ...

Its amazingly preserved old town (a UNESCO World Heritage site) feels practically untouched by the modern age. The city harbors more than 1,000 historic timber-frame houses, as well as sacred ...

The royal, 36, was due to join Chancellor Rachel Reeves at the event in Davos in Switzerland between January 20 and 24 - and ...

Full of emotional and deeply personal stories, the side content in these open-world games often outshines their main plots.

Iron is an essential mineral that you obtain from the foods ... Association between tea drinking and anemia in women of reproductive age: a cross-sectional study from the Mekran division, Balochistan, ...

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An American billionaire's plans to build a country house in an English village could be delayed by a possible Iron Age hillfort near the site. Ronald Burkle, a businessman and the executive ...