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Seventy-nine men, laid out in three rows, many still wearing iron shackles — found on the coast near Athens in 2016 and unexplained ever since. New strontium analysis of tooth enamel from 66 of them found that roughly 97% grew up locally, almost exactly matching the wider Phaleron burial population. Whatever happened to them, they were not foreign fighters or an invading force. Athens did this to its own.
A 2.2-meter marble Asklepios, missing the arm that once rested on his serpent-entwined staff, was found beside his small son Telesphoros — the child-god of convalescence — in the ruins of a monumental gate in southern Türkiye. The pair stood on a busy street between the theater and the agora, which says something about how central healing cults were to everyday Roman city life.
Under farmland between Halberton and Sampford Peverell, a University of Exeter and Cotswold Archaeology team uncovered a 12-square-metre polychrome mosaic in red, white and dark blue-grey — the westernmost ever found in a British villa. A second trench downslope held a bathhouse with two opus signinum plunge pools, alongside intaglio, jewellery and painted plaster left by a wealthy 4th-century household in a region where villas are genuinely rare.
Archaeologists in Ukraine uncovered a rare 2,500-year-old leather cap and belt decorated with bronze plaques in a Scythian-era woman's burial, with the cap's design drawing parallels to Croatia's traditional Lika hat.
A century and a decade after Jutland, the largest sea fight of the First World War still poses a stubborn question: how does a fleet lose more ships, more men, and more glory — and still come out ahead?
On the hidden origins, borrowed symbols, and enduring mystery of the holiday that refuses to stay still.
Who decided we should rearrange time itself—and why have we never stopped? The answer is a story of satirists, entomologists, wartime desperation, and a policy whose original justification has largely evaporated.
Folklore and faith intertwine in the story of Ireland's patron saint. From Roman Britain to the emerald hills, the legend of Saint Patrick endures as a cornerstone of national identity.
Archaeologists discovered a hand stencil on the Indonesian island of Muna that is at least 67,800 years old — the oldest known artwork by modern humans, with fingers deliberately shaped to look like animal claws.