Whether to avert bad luck, express gratitude for good fortune, or simply out of habit, knocking on wood endures as a small ...

The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the circular object—found lying on the ground near a construction pit—might be a ...

Drawing on mysticism and the new language of science, a generation of charismatic performers and con artists became ...

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 Iron-Age metal artifacts, which was found in a field near ...

The story of Ancient Roman Emperor Hardrian and his lover Antinous has long been the stuff of literal legend, captivating the ...

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