And then success can create room to build, provide, repair, and serve. The Stoics knew this. They were not naïve about the uses of wealth or the consequences of rank. Yet today, Stoicism is often ...

A young horseman buried more than 2,000 years ago in southern Russia went to his grave with weapons, his horse and a gold ...

A man who died in the Ecuadorian Andes more than 3,000 years ago has a face again. An international team has completed a ...

A new study of ancient DNA indicates that the ancestors of modern Native Americans first arrived in the New World not earlier ...

A coded letter sent on Napoleon Bonaparte's orders in March 1809 has finally been read, 217 years after it was written. The ...

On the second night, the seer Ezra dreams of an eagle rising from the sea. It has twelve feathered wings and three heads. It ...

Now those corroded coins have achieved something no medieval manuscript could: they have proved that a busy English ...

The finding helps explain how a fascinating artifact was used and indicates how a lost technology that was used in prehistory ...

After three weeks in the mountains, the Secrets of the Ice team has announced that 48 prehistoric arrows like the beauty ...

For now the ossuary stays in storage rather than on public display, a limestone box at the centre of a question archaeology ...

An entire Roman town—not merely a fort—has emerged from beneath fields at Stein in Lower Austria. The University of Innsbruck ...

Paracas weapons tell a story that ought to have an arrow in it—but does not. A new study of 200 obsidian projectile points ...