When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

The percentage of UK adults who hold any form of savings account, from a bank or building society account to cash ISAs or credit union savings, varies by age. Those in older age groups are far ...

In the Geißenklösterle cave, located in the Swabian Jura near Blaubeuren, Germany, an exceptional piece of prehistoric art was discovered in 1979: a carved mammoth ivory plaque, dated between 35,000 ...

Seventy-six percent of males are diagnosed by 10 years of age, but 50% of females are not diagnosed by 12 years of age. “This is a problem because, without the diagnosis, we can miss the chance ...

Art is often considered to be a human endeavour. To suggest otherwise would be, for some, little more than anthropomorphism. Yet some species build fascinating structures and produce sounds that ...

Eventually, we identified it as a tower or fortress dating back to the Hellenistic period, or 2,200 years ago.” The region’s Hellenistic period—named for pervasive Greek influence—began ...

Two more sculptures that celebrate Sunderland’s industrial heritage have been unveiled on the banks of the Wear. Ray Lonsdale, whose much-loved steel-work Gan Canny - on Keel Square - has been a ...

He was a runaway slave who led a rebellion on the island of Chios during the Hellenistic period. He carved out a name for himself in an era when the enslaved had few means of resistance. We read his ...

The site, unearthed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Ministry of Heritage with help from volunteers nationwide, dates back to the Hellenistic period under Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule.

The Israel Antiquities Authority and the Heritage Ministry, which are jointly leading the dig north of Nahal Zohar, say the findings date to the Hellenistic period, when the Ptolemies and ...