The historical importance of The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is twofold and it remains a standard despite its association with Charles Manson.

One grave contained the remains of three children all under the age of 3, researchers said. Their combined burial suggests ...

Using Arctic ice core samples, researchers estimate silver mining and smelting released enough lead during the Pax Romana to ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

To pursue their ambitious project to build a ‘21st-century abbey’ using the ancestral skills of stonecutters, the Benedictine ...

A search for a rumored Roman estate in Germany led archaeologists to something much larger: the ruins of an ancient Roman ...

In the Neckargartach district of Heilbronn, in southwestern Germany, a 500-meter-long section of Roman road and various ...

A new study turned to Arctic ice core records between 500 BCE through 600 CE to find a link between lead pollution and widespread health decline in the Ancient Roman Empire, which most likely lowered ...

New research suggests that lead pollution from ancient Roman mining and metal production may have lowered intelligence levels across the Empire.

Lead contamination has long been recognized as a significant public health hazard, even at low exposure levels. A recent ...

Contestants had to guess a link between an artefact from Hadrian's Wall, one of the greatest footballers of all time, an ...

The city of Rome was the beating heart of the Roman Empire, which spanned from the rise of Augustus in around 27 BCE until ...