Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now northeastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains ...
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Remains in the graves of St. Helena, where the British military housed "liberated" enslaved Africans, contain isotopes from inland Angola and Zimbabwe ...
Travel back in time to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey through an ongoing excavation of the site believed to be the legendary city.
Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...
Saint Helena is a tiny volcanic island more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa. Between 1840 and 1863, the British Royal Navy brought nearly 27,000 Africans from captured illegal slave ships to ...
Archaeologists collaborated with members of the GunaiKurnai Aboriginal community to explore layers of ash from burned grasses dating back thousands of years inside Cloggs Cave Kids Can Try Out the ...
Ancient Greek clothing played a fundamental role in defining people’s standing and personalities, shaping their fashion ...
It's the final resting place for at least 50 people, the first of whom was buried there in 1737.
Throughline American history through song July 7, 2026 • There are many ways to look at and understand American history. In this series, we’ve shared stories about how this country was founded and how ...
Ancient inscriptions discovered on Ithaca bear witness to the cult of Odysseus that lasted a thousand years from his death. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture / Christina Marabea The scientific ...