Inside, they found traces of harmless moisturizers like palm and nutmeg oils. But the vial also contained the residue of an ...

A genetic fault long believed to drive the development of esophageal cancer may in fact play a protective role early in the disease, according to new research published in Nature Cancer.

Recent discoveries suggest that small spoon-shaped objects attached to the belts of ancient Northern European warriors might ...

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

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

The ancient Romans were the first to compile comprehensive texts about more than one subject, and that’s why we say they ...

Atop Cividade Hill in northern Portugal, the ancient city of Bracasa Augusta lays in ruin. Today, the site belongs to the ...

In a discovery that intertwines archaeology, art history, and medicine, a 2nd-century AD bronze figurine unearthed in Bracara ...

An ancient Greek "cancer-treating" amulet has been unearthed in the ancient city of Pisidia Antioch, located in southwestern ...

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data ...

If the frenzy around the release of ‘Gladiator II’ was anything to go by, our obsession with the Roman Empire is a long way ...