A Roman bone found alongside 1,000 black henbane hallucinogenic seeds reveals medical and ritual practices in ancient Roman ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...

Archaeological find in Gloucester: 317 skeletons and Roman mosaics under old warehouse reveal 2,000 years of hidden British ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

The excavation revealed a cemetery, with about half of the skeletons found in burial vaults associated with the medieval ...

NPR secured one of the last public tours of the Sistine Chapel before it closes for the Catholic Church's upcoming conclave to select the next pope.

A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands spotlights hundreds of mudlarking finds, from Bronze Age tools to Viking ...

Erik Medina, a chemistry major from Miami, has been named the Princeton Class of 2025 valedictorian. Rosie Eden, a classics ...

Many pagan Celtic traditions from medieval times were incorporated into Marian veneration, the most notable of which was the collection of flowers. Flowers were used to decorate grottoes, altars and ...