The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ...

Headless skeletons, feral bears and female fighters – a new British Museum show revolutionises our understanding of life in ...

The Trump-named cryptocurrency is valued at more than $6 billion after its first week, but it mimics moves made by ancient ...

Roman mosaic has returned home to Nigran in Galicia, seven years after being rediscovered in New York. The Panxon mosaic was ...

Ahead of King Charles III's coronation, subtle markings on the Stone of Destiny uncovered mysterious Roman numerals - XXXV.

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

Someone once described the fair to director Helen Allen as “a galaxy of colliding worlds,” and she says that description particularly apt.

A rare Corinthian helmet from ancient Greece, made of bronze and dating back to between 500 and 450 BCE, is set to be ...

COMMENTARY: Why did Catholic historian Christopher Dawson fear a post-Christian world? His writings offer a sobering critique ...

Clandestine priests smuggled into England hunted by spies from the royal court and martyred are prominent within English Catholic memory of the 16th and early 17th century. Priest-holes, the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human ...