The Villanovan culture, the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the first Iron Age society in Italy.

Greek and Roman religion venerated one plurality of gods, heroesbut also personifications of abstract concepts. The ancient ...

A monumental tomb found near Corinth has revealed several burials, along with artifacts reflecting its later use as a healing ...

The movie only recently started filming and is still more than a year away, but each little detail that leaks out from the ...

It's of Hans Lang, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest natural beard for a male — his beard measured 17.6 ft ...

It happened to Hans Steininger, a 16th-century Austrian mayor famous for having a long beard. His beard was so long, in fact, ...

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the type of helmet that Odysseus will use in Christopher Nolan's film about the Odyssey.

The ostraca were written in hieroglyphic scripts, along with Egyptian demotic and Greek. ANCIENT ROMAN HELMET TURNS UP IN UNUSUAL LOCATION: 'EXCEPTIONALLY RARE' Excavators also unearthed several ...

Egyptian officials recently announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old mining complex, complete with remnants of ancient homes ... with Egyptian demotic and Greek. Excavators also unearthed ...

Lewis Hamilton recounted the story of his first racing helmet being in ‘Ferrari red’, but that because his father Anthony couldn’t see him around the full lap, that prompted an early switch ...

Leaked audio instructions by Greek rescue co-ordinators have cast further doubt on Greece's official version of events in the hours before a migrant boat sank along with up to 650 people onboard.

In the past, dating the widespread use of iron in India to around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE seemed reasonable. The Hittites, an ancient Anatolian civilisation (c. 1600–1178 BCE) from ...