In 1229 the people of Dunstable declared that they would rather go to hell than submit in a dispute over…
When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of…
Archaeological evidence has finally confirmed what Roman historians have long documented - gladiators really did battle ferocious bears in ancient…
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…