In an extraordinary discovery that sheds light on medieval Slavic culture, underwater archaeologists have found a haunting ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Archaeologists discover two 2,300-year-old Celtic swords encrusted with glass and copper in France, revealing ancient cultural networks.

We text with envelope icons, save with floppy disks, and call with phone handles no one actually uses anymore. So why do these old-fashioned symbols endure? The answer lies in nostalgia, design ...

A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on a river in the center of the country.