Taking in parts of six counties across the Midlands and South West, the Cotswolds has many identities, each worth taking time to discover ...

Lupercalia was an ancient Roman fertility festival in mid-February where young men drew women’s names from a box, often ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

The first official Groundhog Day was celebrated in this country in 1887, but the tradition goes back many, many more years than that.

Three years ago, archaeologists were called to a 24-acre plot of land in central England. They were there on behalf of Bloor Homes, a housing development company, to search the land and make sure ...

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

For the first time in two millennia, a Roman scroll charred by Mount Vesuvius's eruption is being read using advanced X-ray ...

The Vigiles were Rome’s own firefighters, in charge of reducing fire hazards in the city, as well as street crime.

The Roman Empire brought together millions of people of different cultures, ethnicities and religions. But how did its ...

The front door of the First Baptist Church of Martha’s Vineyard has a welcome sign in Portuguese with a Brazilian and American flag, and inside there are wooden walls, an old organ, and a velvety ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...