Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant mammals in the Punic Wars.
A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...
The oval-shaped board has a pattern of carved lines that do not resemble those of any of known game, modern or ancient.
The National Museum of Scotland has added to its permanent collection two stone altars of exceptional craftsmanship from the ...
Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.
The intricately crafted stones - the only such examples ever discovered in Scotland, and among the earliest found anywhere in Britain - were uncovered by chance during excavations at a cricket ...
They were the fragile historical treasures found buried beneath the site of a Scottish cricket pavilion. Now the painstakingly-restored remains of an underground temple where the Romans worshipped a ...
A metal detectorist in the east of England discovered a medieval seal that was made between 1200 and 1400 C.E. The seal mixes ...
Astonishing find in Wandlebury Country Park includes one man over six foot with a hole trepanned in his skull.
ZME Science reports that a metal detectorist recovered a four-inch copper-alloy carriage ornament in Essex. The figure, now ...
Archaeologists recently found a large Roman industrial complex in northern England — along with hundreds of tools, offering ...
Archaeologists say a 13th-century silver seal discovered on farmland holds a carved gemstone dating back to the Roman Empire.
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