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Excavating the eastern wall section of Halmyris in 2016. Emily Hanscam, Author provided Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube. By Emily Hanscam / 07.25.2017...
EPA It takes more than a quick scan for high-tech archaeology to reveal history’s secrets. By Dr. Kristian Strutt / 03.23.2016...
A timeline of Shakespeare’s plays / Creative Commons Defining national culture and identity. By Dr. Eugene O’Brien...
A detail from Stanisław Wyspiański’s “Macierzynstwo” (1905). Wikimedia Commons What are we really talking about when we criticize...
Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Ice Scene’ (c. 1610). Wikimedia Commons The function of fashion as a form of cultural transfer in...
Sky Atlantic We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know...
© MGM With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names. By Keith Ruiter / 02.18.2016...
Too late lads, the Scots are already there. Oscar Wergeland Iceland was one of the last island groups...
Mikladalur, Faroe Islands / Photo by Davide Gorla, Wikimedia Commons The Faroe Islands could have been inhabited 500 years earlier...
An extinct strain of the human Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been discovered in Bronze Age human...
Map showing the geographical centrality of the North Pole, from Paradise Found (1885), by William F. Warren Of all...
Mary Queen of Scots was at the centre of numerous plots to kill Queen Elizabeth I. Pierre Révoil...
The Last Kingdom. BBC/Carnival/Des Wille New research suggests his military achievements might have been exaggerated. By Dr. Stuart Brookes...
Pexels Thankfully, defleshing bones has fallen out of fashion. By Dr. Yvonne Inall / 12.30.2016 Research Assistant...
A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked...
By Lynda Telford / 05.20.2018 Events and Projects Officer Richard III Society, Yorkshire Branch What was the...
How did Yersinia pestis bacteria start to target the lungs and become so deadly? National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Trump pulling out of the JCPOA. / Creative Commons An apparent coordination between Trump leaving the Iran...
One of the two exposed foundations of an Ancient Roman triumphal arch from the 1st century AD...
A rich Roman villa from the 3rd – 4th century AD has been discovered some 30 km...
Did Ashkenazi Jews descend from ancient Turkey? Everett Historical/Shutterstock Yiddish was at one time the international language of Ashkenazic Jews, but it’s exact...
Reading fiction can make you happier, nicer towards others and better focused in your activities. Pixabay/Pexels To counter the...
Vuk Kostic/www.shutterstock.com Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times. By Dr. Raluca Radulescu /...
Emilia Romagna castle fortress in Italy / Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.09.2018 Historian...
Science Oxford But the British soon got the hang of profanity. By Emily Reed / 03.15.2018 Doctoral...
By (left-to-right) Dr. N. Alan Clark, Dr. Thomas Heflin, and Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Clark: Director of...
Detail of The Effects of Good Government, a fresco in the City Hall of Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338. / By Wikimedia Commons...
Piero della Francesca, Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455-65, oil and tempera on wood, 58.4 × 81.5 cm (Galleria...
Portrait of Thomas Wolsey, artist unknown, late 16th century — National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia Commons Characterised as...