This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Pamela Hassell, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published ...

While the US military did not allow gays to serve until 2011, they've marched side by side in some of the world’s greatest ...

We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology) has ...

Roman soldiers typically stayed at temporary camps for a few days or weeks before continuing marching. The Hoog Buurlo camp ...

In the legends of King Arthur, the leader of the Britons is most famous for fighting against the Saxons during their conquest of Britain. Most scholars acknowledge that this may have a factual basis.

Learn how archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to debunk one of the most defining moments in British history.

Historian Faith Tibble examines the origin of one of the most famous images in the Christian world and how it changed over ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

Radiocarbon dating of human remains dug up in 1936 at one of Europe's biggest hill forts has revealed the victims were killed ...

Believed to have been part of a much larger ornament, the pair found it during their 21st year of volunteer excavations.