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High Fashion of Ancient Rome: Togas and Stolas
The toga is arguably the best-known garment from ancient Rome. Initially, the toga was worn both by male and female Roman citizens.Read moreSection: NewsHistoryAncient Traditions
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Farmer Unearths Elite Nomad Burials and ‘Laughing Man’ Elongated Skull
In Southern Russia, an elite nomad burial site has been unearthed. While working on his lands, a farmer stumbled across burials that appear to have belonged to a nomadic culture. Archaeologists have...
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Researchers Find Roman Villas and a Spectacular Mosaic in Egypt
In Egypt, archaeologists have found some important Roman ruins, in the historic city of Alexandria. Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later
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1800-year-old Shard of Roman Glass Left A Fishy Trail From the Black Sea
The mystery of the origin of an unusual piece of glass has been solved in Britain. It has been established that it belonged to a very rare fish-shaped bottleRead moreSection: NewsHistory &...
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Decoded Inscription Reveals Pompeii was a City of Extremes
The ruined city of Pompeii that was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD continues to provide insights into Roman history and society. Read moreSection: NewsHistory &...
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Even Low-Class Iron Age Celts Sipped Fine Mediterranean Wine
A new study reveals Mediterranean wine was enjoyed by ‘all classes’ of Iron Age Celts 2,700 years ago. Archaeologists excavating at the prehistoric Heuneburg hillfort in southern Germany, just north of...
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Has A Napoleonic Dynasty Been Reborn In “Coincidental” Elite Marriage?
Napoleon Bonaparte's London-based heir, who shares the historic general's famous name, is marrying the great-grand-daughter of Austria's last emperor, who is descended from Napoleon’s second wife,...
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Bizarre Moche Burials Include Mutilation and Skull Tattoos
Eleven 1000-year-old graves containing skeletons from the Moche civilization have been found in Peru. Some have been mutilated with their feet removed and tattoos imprinted on their skulls.Read...
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Pre-Roman Prince’s Tomb Packed With Treasures Found in Italy
In Italy, archaeologists have unearthed what they are calling a ‘prince’s tomb’, found using the latest non-invasive archaeological methods. The royal burial is believed to come from an enigmatic...
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Ancient Viking Glass Artifact Was A Game Piece Of The Elites
A tiny glass crown is being heralded as a rare archaeological artifact from the first wave of Viking raids in England.Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later
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Pictish Stones Expose Ancient Scotland’s Warrior Ethos
A new paper published by Cambridge University Press, presents evidence of a “heroic warrior ethos” that had spread across Northern Europe during the first millennium AD.Read moreSection: NewsHistory...
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6000-Year-Old German Burial Chamber Destroys Egalitarian Ideologies
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a 6,000-year-old hilltop burial mound that indicates Neolithic societies were much more hierarchically organized than previously thought.Read moreSection:...
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Signs of Dynastic Incest at Newgrange Reveal Secrets Behind Irish Megaliths
The European Neolithic era was a time of change. The first agricultural revolution saw people take a stronger interest in farming, small-scale communities grew, polished stone axes cleared forests, and...
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Fact or Fiction? The Unjust Reality of a Whipping Boy
The history of the world’s nobility is filled with extravagance, wealth, and, more than often, with arrogance. In all corners of the globe, aristocrats and nobles, kings and young princes, were all...
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Maya Elite List Deciphered At The Temple Of Jaguars
Researchers in Mexico have deciphered an ancient text revealing the succession of names of the Cocom dynasty royal Maya blood lineage and published a breakthrough book on the subject. Read moreSection:...
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Mexican Farmers Unearth Ancient Statue of Elite Mesoamerican Woman
Farmers tilling the soil in a citrus grove in the Huasteca region along Mexico’s Gulf Coast unearthed something ancient and unusual. Hitting a hard object they assumed was a rock, the farmers dug down...
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Skeletal Trauma Reveals Class Inequality in Medieval Cambridge
Skeletal trauma has been studied in the remains of hundreds of people who lived in medieval Cambridge excavated from three cemeteries dating back to between the 10th and 14th century. The study has...
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A ‘Cult of Saints’ Meant Plentiful Sainthoods For Celtic Aristocracy
Dark Age Britain was apparently full of “saints”…well, at least hundreds of people gained membership into the ‘cult of saints’ at that time.Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later
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Stunning Medieval Treasures Discovered in Wales By Metal Detectorists
Eight medieval and late medieval treasures have been discovered in Wales, UK, all found by metal detectorists. These treasures offer anthropologists insights into the life of wealthy members of Welsh...
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Silver Shields: Alexander's Crack Troops Who Betrayed Their New Master
Could a ragtag team of elite troops in their later years, and a bureaucrat-turn-general take on the military powerhouse of the day? Eumenes, the Greek general, was tasked by Olympias Read moreSection:...
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British Aristocrats Rented Pineapples by the Hour to Display Their Status
Who would have thought that a few centuries ago, an everyday fruit like the pineapple, would be a symbol of wealth, status and good breeding? Worth thousands to buy, the precious pineapple was far too...
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2,000-Year-Old Roman Villa Found in Germany had Luxurious Underfloor Heating
In 15 BC the Roman Emperor Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, and his brother Tiberius attacked, subdued, and destroyed a Celtic settlement and founded the city of Cambodunum.Read moreSection:...
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Young Girl and 142 Dogs Found Buried Together in Elite Egyptian Tomb
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of 142 non-ritually buried dogs, covered in blue powder, in an elite Egyptian tomb. It is believed they were drowned in a reservoir flood.Read moreSection:...
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Swedish Expedition Strikes Gold Within Royal Tombs in Cyprus
An archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg has announced the finding of underground tombs in Cyprus. Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient...
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Untouched 2,600-Year-Old Fully Intact Etruscan Tomb Uncovered in Italy
In the archaeological area of the ancient Etruscan city Vulci, a new, fully intact double-chambered Etruscan tomb was uncovered in the Osteria necropolis.Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther...
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1,000-Year-Old Skeleton Couple Unearthed and the Woman is Missing Her Face!
While performing excavations at the site of an ancient imperial palace in the village of Eisleben in Germany.Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later
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Huge 500-Year-Old Longsword Recovered from Medieval Grave on Swedish Coast
Researchers digging at the Lilla Torg site in the western Swedish port city of Halmstad unearthed something extraordinarily rare. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient TechnologyNewsHistory &...
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Unique 1,600-Year-Old Roman Indoor Pool Discovered in Albania
In the Albanian port city of Durrës, archaeologists have made a sensational discovery: a 1600-year-old Roman indoor pool, a first of its kind in the area.Read moreSection: NewsHistory &...
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Roman Elites Alone Wore Tyrian Purple, Maintaining Social Hierarchy
Throughout history, the rich and powerful have attempted to control access to items considered luxurious or status symbols. Today, this is done through marketing and price setting (a prominent example...
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Golden Bull of 1222
The Golden Bull of 1222: Hungary's Magna Carta The Golden Bull of 1222, issued by King Andrew II of Hungary, is one of the most significant legal documents in medieval European history. Often compared...
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