Britain has given Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich an ultimatum to donate £2.5 billion from the Chelsea sale to Ukraine. The funds are currently frozen due to sanctions after Russia's 2022 Ukraine ...

The Archives of Disease in Childhood ’s centenary provides an opportunity to reflect on how our attitudes to child abuse have ...

Christmas has evolved from a religious holiday to a popular cultural holiday observed by Christian and secular people across the globe.

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

Today in History for Dec. 30: In 1384, the English religious reformer John Wycliffe died of a stroke. He was a bold critic of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church and believed the Church should ...

Why do we knock on wood? Explore 7 strange superstitions and the psychology behind why we believe them, from black cats to broken mirrors.

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

The health of populations in Britain declined under Roman occupation, particularly in more urban areas. There is a widely held belief that the Romans brought civilisation and its many benefits to ...

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

By looking at mother-infant experiences together, we can observe the long-lasting impact urbanization has on the health of ...