The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of Islamophobia after blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. The Conservative leader made the comments ...

Mrs Badenoch said cultural issues surrounding the problem also needed to be examined. “One is on the perpetrators’ side: where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation ...

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The art and architecture of ancient ... founder of clothing brand Arkitaip, have collaborated to create a limited-edition tablecloth (£215). Inspired by the azures and whites of Greece, Sewell ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...