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Historians suggest beer was the favoured drink of the Roman army and the Carlsberg research lab has hypothesised how Roman ...

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

This is one person's ultimate Ireland bucket list - from the surf up North to going on a ghost hunt. What would be on your ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

A new study reveals the most complex numeric connection ever made between two khipus. It could help lead us to even more ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...