Archaeologists in Dijon, France, have uncovered rare seated burials featuring Gallic graves and a children’s cemetery.

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Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Jennifer Tang's folio-feminising London production at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse proves that bathos conquers all, even if it ...

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the ...

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A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.

A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.