Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...

Photo from the South Jutland Archaeological Museum Sifting through the soil of an abandoned ancient village, archaeologists ...

GEORGE TOWN: People who are illiterate or just cannot put thought on paper, crowd into an olden-day coffee shop in the heritage enclave here almost daily. At the shop front is a decades-long nasi ...

A round up of recent celebrity news – from new ambassadors and patrons, to Amelia Dimoldenberg and Joanna Lumley helping to launch this year’s Red Nose Day. Ivy & Le Caprice restauranteur Chris Corbin ...

This, Woolf knew, was what writing needed to do: to stop time. As she wrote of the Pastons’ letters: “There is the ancient day, spread out before us, hour by hour.” Her metaphor shows that ...

Dame Joanna Lumley is brought up to speed on 2025 trends by Amelia Dimoldenberg in a new sketch to launch this year’s Red Nose Day campaign. Chicken Shop Date host Dimoldenberg, 30, interrupts ...

“I know queen, ancient. But its vibes are still immaculate. It’s giving ‘having a laugh’, it’s giving ‘doing some good’. So join the party and pop off this Red Nose Day. It’s going to be lit.” ...