Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Tariffs are back in the headlines this week, with United States President Donald Trump introducing sweeping new tariffs of at least 10 per cent on a vast range of goods imported to the US. For some ...

Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has been turned into a ten-mile-long archaeological park best reconnoitered by ...

Clay McLachlan Bruno Tassan wages a tireless campaign to locate and save vestiges of ancient Rome's Via Aurelia in France. Tassan discovered Roman history in his teens: "From that point," he says ...

The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome, saying: Maiden faces have these birds, foulest filth ...