On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the…
Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in…
French archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved Roman mausoleum at Saint-Romain-en-Gal near Lyon, representing one of only 18 tumulus mausolea…
Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable 1,400-year-old Christian cross on Abu Dhabi's Sir Bani Yas Island, adding to our understanding of Christianity's…
From the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With Parliament and law courts in…
Scientists have discovered extraordinary "interstellar tunnels" that create direct pathways from our solar system to distant stellar regions, fundamentally changing…
South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the…
By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in…
Archaeological excavations on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have uncovered seven stone tools dating back at least 1.04 million years,…
Between 1288 and 1300 European merchants competed with one another to obtain the right to collect duties on wine shipments…