Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...

Early on in this history, Steven Ozment describes his huge task as the "Tacitus challenge". Tacitus wrote his account of what he called the "various peoples of Germany" in AD98, at a time when popular ...

In 2023, the weather-forecasting groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, predicting six more weeks of winter (Credit: Getty Images) You say Groundhog Day, I say ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis. An enhanced look ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: If you’ve finished Barbarians then you’re probably desperate for your next German history fix. Wondering if Barbarians Season 2 is happening? Then you’re exactly where ...