Archaeologists have analyzed a mass grave in southeastern Europe that held the remains of women and children who were violently murdered 2,800 years ago. The grave may be key to understanding the ...
On September 22, 1609, King Philip III promulgated the decree by which the Moriscos were expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia, a measure that little by little was extended to the rest of the kingdoms ...
Could you survive as a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall? Join the History Hit YouTube team as we discover what life was like for Roman legionaries and auxiliary troops on the northern frontier of the ...
Four early Anglo-Saxon swords uncovered during a recent archaeological excavation I took part in each tell a story about how weapons were viewed at the time. There was also a striking discovery of a ...
The vial, also known as an unguentarium, is commonly believed to have held perfumes or cosmetic oils. A new chemical analysis revealed evidence that ancient Roman physicians used human feces in ...
A hand stencil found in a cave on Muna Island, Indonesia, has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the oldest reliably dated example of rock art. The stencil, a faint hand outline, was ...
A team pushed nearly 3 miles deep into a cave where almost no one ever reaches — and made a discovery that stunned them. Hidden in the darkness was an ancient snake fossil, preserved far from the ...
Ancient Roman texts suggest that doctors in antiquity used a peculiar ingredient to treat certain medical maladies: human feces. This has been largely dismissed by modern scientists as a theoretical ...
The forested hills above Montignac in southwestern France hold no obvious clues to one of archaeology’s most pivotal finds. The slope is ordinary. The entrance, once marked only by a fallen tree, ...
Duncan Sayer would like to thank Dr Andrew Richardson who is a co-director of the east Kent excavation project. The excavation, which I carried out with archaeologist Andrew Richardson, focused on an ...
A Lynn man has been found guilty of killing a Cape Cod man during a 2022 incident in Falmouth in which the victim was stabbed with a sword 19 times, the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office ...