There’s plenty to criticise about that ancient approach We wouldn’t recognise the system practised in ancient Athens as democracy in the sense we understand it today. Women did not have the vote, and

After a decade and a half of excavations, archæologists have uncovered the naturally mummified remains of well over 100 indigenous Yakuts of north-eastern Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth.

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Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial ...

Globetrotter’s diary

Thanks to a pair of eagle-eyed dog walkers, ...