HISTORY

There was no love lost between rival Neapolitan authors and publishers Domenico Antonio Parrino (1642-c.1716) and Antonio Bulifon (1649-1707). Their

Were the Egyptian pyramids truly just tombs built with eternity in mind? Or did they hold a far more practical

A remarkable million-year-old skull discovered in China has shattered long-held beliefs about human evolution, suggesting that modern humans and their

In a discovery that sends shockwaves through the archaeological world, researchers have uncovered a mysterious human figure deliberately entombed within

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could finally solve one of history’s greatest mysteries: the location of Cleopatra’s tomb.

Hsiao-chun Hung/The Conversation Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practiced by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as

In 1229 the people of Dunstable declared that they would rather go to hell than submit in a dispute over

When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of

We usually think of monsters as things to be feared or destroyed. Yet sometimes they carry messages we would not

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the