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Archaeologists conducting excavations of a knights stronghold have uncovered a rare cross-shaped reliquary.

A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a “treasure map” for archaeologists, who are using it to hunt for ancient sites around north-western France.

The bathroom didn’t become a thing until the nineteenth century, and most working-class US homes added plumbed-in amenities in piecemeal fashion over time.

A documentary photographer and photo preservationist painstakingly restored thousands of glass plate photographs that reveal what life was like in New England 160 years ago.

Looking back at the 1st Industrial Revolution, do you feel like we are also going through a new Digital Revolution considering new technologies like AI, Virtual Reality, 3D printing etc?

Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

The Golden House or Domus Aurea was an incredibly luxurious Roman palace that was lost for centuries.

Many Roman Emperors secured their reputations on the battlefield, but not all of them came away unscathed. Discover which emperors lived and died by the sword....

Archaeologists have uncovered a “folding chair” from the 7th century AD during excavations in the village of Endsee, located in Middle Franconia, Germany.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval silver coin that features a Serbian king and a saint on one side and Jesus on the other.

Did ancient Romans invent unbreakable glass? If they did, their secrets would be long lost because the Roman Emperor Tiberius beheaded the inventor of flexible glass. Whether the story is just a myth or there is some truth behind it, it is impossible to say. The Pax Romana (‘Roman Peace’) was a period of relative peace and...

Wondering what coins people used in medieval times? This list will help!

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/10945207...

A Babylonian tablet from around 1770 BC uses principles of the Pythagorean theorem, suggesting ancient Babylonians discovered it centuries before the famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras for whom it’s named.

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Boards trodden by the Bard have been discovered under layers of flooring at England’s oldest medieval guildhall as it undergoes a big refurbishment....

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/10358195...

You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years. The history of abortion is often told as a legal one, yet abortion has continued regardless of, perhaps even in spite of,...

Just follow the link and vote for what you want. The Industrial Revolution was the second most voted for topic last week so I put it in again so those of you who wanted to talk about that get a second chance!

A project mapping medieval England’s known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London’s 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford’s student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities....