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As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
A huge Roman shoe measuring almost 13 inches long has been discovered near Hadrian’s Wall. The hefty leather sole measures a ...
Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...
Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...
Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...
A new exhibition in London (open until February 2026) called Thirst: In search of freshwater highlights how civilizations ...
Hancock has worked closely with local community members on a project to reimagine one of its permanent galleries ...
Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus depicting a scene familiar to many today: a drinking game.
Roman legions were still wiping up the last of the Dacians when the Senate began planning the 98-foot-tall Trajan monument in Rome. Moscow’s monument to Alexander I was started in 1811, a year ...
The treasure dated back to the Dacians, who unsuccessfully warred against the Roman Empire in the second century A.D. Andrea Margolis is a lifestyle writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
The Dacians settled in present-day Romania in the 1st millennium B.C. The group unsuccessfully warred against the Roman Empire in the second century A.D., and Dacia became a Roman province in 106 A.D.