Those who do not learn lessons from history are condemned to repeat the same.” In today’s battle of narratives, it is ...

The Open University has been forced to back down on claims the Virgin Mary was born in “ancient Palestine” following a legal ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

China surprised us in ways we never imagined during our journey through Dazu, a place where ancient history and modern ...

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Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

The Roman Empire may have fallen more than 1,500 years ago, but its streets never truly disappeared. Across Europe and the ...

The ancient synagogue was only uncovered under the High Street in 1995, laying undiscovered since the 12th Century ...