Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance ... As so often happens with historical occurrences if they are not written down at the time, by the time Pheidippides’ exploits ...

I FEEL about six years old, hands and knees covered in thick mud, as I emerge from a tunnel only big enough to crawl through, first used by Christian settlers more than 1,200 years ago to escape ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder ...

A walk round the greatest free art show in the world shows it needn’t be stuck in a gallery. Words: Matt Swaine. Photos: Tom ...

Among the things preserved at Pompeii, which was buried byMt. Vesuvius more than 1,940 years ago, are thousands of examples ...

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Police department uses social media to address residents concerned about seeing the Nazi-appropriated symbol in town as Hindu celebration gets underway.

The skeleton of a 17,000 years old child helped scientists discover more about early European migrations and the history of ...

One up to 200 times bigger landed 3.26 billion years ago ... Researchers assessed the effects of this meteorite impact using evidence from ancient rocks in a region in northeastern South Africa ...

This applies as much to the once rebellious graffiti on Nicosia streets as anything ... There’s something disrespectful in that. Other times, the message is dated – but still somehow poignant.

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood.