3+ week, 4+ day ago   (428+ words) century BC Excavations at the ancient city of Aspendos in Turkey have unravelled a trove of 2,400-year-old...the Turkish ministry of culture and tourism said in a statement. “In the Eastern Necropolis, whose existence was first detected in the city,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (971+ words) In central London, near where tourists and business travelers board Eurostar trains to Paris,...graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced...fought so hard to win independence from. His…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (447+ words) display across the UK. The “Wallace letter” was written in 1300 by King Philip IV of France to his agents in the court of Pope Boniface VIII in Rome. Written in a form of Latin shorthand, the brief letter instructs...them…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1262+ words) citizens who had committed no crime. Within two years, in March 1943, the largest and longest-operating of...Hawaiʻi’s 17 known wartime detention sites opened in a remote, sweltering gulch in central Oʻahu. It closed three years later. The prisoners...a bitter nickname:…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (804+ words) crossroad near the end of the Revolutionary War sit in the oak's shade to recuperate from the series of attacks in American Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene's “war of...unique, living reminder of an oft-overshadowed chapter in U.S. history. What the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (417+ words) Britain’s iconic Devil’s Arrows, archaeologists noted in a new study. The structure near Boroughbridge, in northern England, is Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row, rising up to 7m. In spite of its scale and prominence, the origin of...the structure, which…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (554+ words) for Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, in 2023, they soon realised that the city’s ceramic...legacy could not be told through kilns and workshops in downtown Jingdezhen alone. On 25 July, it became...says Wei. They were introduced…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (104+ words) Homeowner discovers Denmark's biggest-ever Viking silver hoard while digging new patio. A homeowner digging a new patio discovered Denmark's biggest-ever haul of Viking silver. He initially thought his garden fork had struck a piece of old iron. Instead, he began…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (862+ words) his first week of college. He was only a few days in when he heard a knock on the door from his roommate and the resident director. “I thought I was in trouble,” he tells The Independent. “I got down…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (481+ words) care. After all, it most likely hadn’t been handled in a century — nor read for thousands of years. The...University of Michigan is the only one of its kind in the Americas, according to the university. And it's one of…...