Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he…
Every fifth of November, people across the United Kingdom celebrate Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire…
Kissing has been a popular practice in human society for an eternity. But its evolutionary roots are somewhat of a…
Archaeologists working in Israel have discovered a 5,000-year-old settlement at Hurvat Husham, near Beit Shemesh, as a prelude to the…
The bottom of the Mediterranean Sea holds many secrets, many of which we will never uncover. But diver archaeologists are…
A fragment of purple fabric, a sacred chiton (tunic), found in a royal tomb in Vergina, Macedonia, northern Greece, could…
A hidden medieval Jewish cemetery, once believed to be lost, has been rediscovered beneath the Barbican Estates in London, close…
Like all legal institutions, the Spanish Inquisition recognised that justice needed not only to be done but also to be…
John Stewart & Jeremy Searle/The Conversation Humans seem to have been adapted to the last ice age in similar ways…
Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team…