Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

DRI scientists analyzed Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historical atmospheric lead pollution from Ancient Rome, ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere ...

For them, crucifixion was the ultimate bad news about Jesus. The scandal of death by crucifixion was almost beyond our ...

King George VI granted Edward and Simpson the titles of Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but refused to grant Wallis the ...

Ellen Green, a postgraduate researcher with the University of Reading, analyzed “Quarry 1” from the Nescot site and found “it ...

These qualifications hone interdisciplinary skills by providing access to the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, in the round, through a rich variety of sources. Students can begin them from scratch at ...

An expert has revealed new details regarding the Sutton Hoo burial site, which was originally thought to contain the remains ...

Dr Helen Gittos, a historian at the University of Oxford, claims Sutton Hoo was not the resting place for royals, offering an ...

For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another theory ...

A complex wine press and numerous artifacts were also discovered during excavations at the ancient site in Israel.