Getting your audio player ready... A massive 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin, carved from a single oak tree and discovered by…
Getting your audio player ready... Throughout history, precious gemstones have gone beyond decoration, serving as powerful symbols of wealth, authority,…
Getting your audio player ready... Scandinavian studies scholars at the University of Münster have delivered a sobering message to enthusiasts…
Getting your audio player ready... The Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought with it dramatic social upheaval that…
Getting your audio player ready... Archaeologists working in Grenoble, France, have made a chilling discovery that sheds light on the brutal…
Getting your audio player ready... Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia and hieroglyphs of Egypt make reference to the…
‘Demo-cracy’: power/might of the demos. ‘Demo-sthenes’: strength to/for/with the demos. Demosthenes’ father may have been unimaginative – he had himself…
When Indonesia’s former president Suharto died aged 86 in 2008, the nation began a week of mourning and conflicted reflection.…
Four feet long and made of plaster, a lifelike model of Diplodocus carnegii lurks atop one of the cabinets in…
In the summer of 1967 thousands of young people descended on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in search of sex, drugs,…