This man was buried upright (Photo: Andreas Kotula) Archaeologists in Germany have excavated a burial site, first found in 1962 on top of a rocky hill, that they now believe is the first “true…

Elephant Rock is located along the volcano-formed coast of Heimaey, an island off the coast of Iceland. Diego Delso Iceland is a land of volcanoes. Nowhere is this more evident …

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Old London Bridge was by far the longest inhabited bridge in Europe.

Of all the world’s lost cities, none surely can compete for evocative splendour, age or mystery with Babylon. Here on the desert plains 60 miles south of Baghdad, where the sun turns horizons into flashing pools of mercury, is where so much human history began.

A group of European tourism ministers check out a replica of the ancient caveman paintings in the Altamira caves in 2002. ((Victor Fraile/Reuters) ) A …

The Rape of Proserpina is a large Baroque marble sculptural group by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622. Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. Now on display at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

 Finding ancient well-persevered clothes is not something that happens daily. This is why this particular 1,700-year-old tunic is so special. It is Norway’s oldest piece of clothing and despite being hidden beneath the snow for so many years, it’s still very well-preserved.

In the midst of constructing a new power station, an artifact from antiquity, a 40,500-year-old Kauri log, surfaced, promising insights…

Roter Franz is the mummy of a young man found in the Bourtanger swamp, on the border between Holland and Germany, in 1900. Also known as “Neu Versen Man”, the nickname derives from the color of beard, hair and eyebrows, completely red, coloring due to the presence of acids in the peat bog.

Such works by Oscar Nilsson represent the faces of people […]

Have you ever seen a gun that is attached to a book? This Bible has a chamber for a gun and it was made in Venice for Doge Francesco Morosini in the second part of the 17th century.

The London Mithraeum, discovered in 1952 under the bombed out ruins of London, is now rebuilt and open to the public to give you a “memorable, powerful and authentic experience.”The London Mithraeum was built 1800 years ago by the Romans and dedicated to the god, Mithras. In 1952 a small s