Long before Rome, before China's Iron Age, Tamil Nadu was already forging some of the world's finest swords. New archaeological discoveries reveal that South India's iron technology dates back over 5, ...

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While archaeologists in Norway were excavating an ancient burial ground, they found themselves looking at a pile of rocks. Their attention settled on one reddish slab, which they identified as the ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

A hoard of 50 Roman coins discovered by an amateur metal detectorist buried in a farmer's field in a 'once in a lifetime find ...

A pair of Dutch metal detectorists uncovered an unusual hoard of Roman and British coins dating back to Biblical times, according to European officials.

The salute was first used during the French Revolution by The National Assembly, who were inspired by a Roman painting. “The ...