Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...

A study led by the UAB has revealed a practice that history has overlooked for millennia. An interdisciplinary study led by ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

a man from Naples used archaeological finds to pay his pharmacist. In another, a French archaeologist bought sculptures from the ancient city of Pompeii off a local farmer for the equivalent of ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

Church records show that only three men born in Africa or of African descent have been pope, in the 2nd, 4th and 5th ...

Around midnight, a group of young men, dressed in black, assembles on the Vypeen beach ... Godson begins to chant an ancient prayer, his powerful voice breaking the stillness of the night.

A MAN from Birkenhead has become the first white Westerner to compete in the ancient sport of Dambe ... sport that was mostly unknown outside West Africa. (Image: Supplied) Preparing for Dambe ...

Roman texts and artworks are full of depictions of gladiators, the men who fought each other or ... do you get a lion from Africa to York?” Thompson asks the Guardian’s Ian Sample.

The research involved 77 healthy men from urban and rural areas of ... fibre-rich foods,” However, he added that ancient African grains such as teff might have specific health benefits that ...