In a time of ancient gods, warriors and kings, the tale of a tribe of warrior women was established in Greek mythology. Said to be daughters of the gods, these fierce female fighters from Asia Minor have caught people's imaginations for centuries and

Why is astrology considered unscientific, while economics—which also uses complex mathematical formulas to 'predict' the future—is regarded as a perfectly respectable field of study, despite its many failed forecasts?

The long-buried stash is thought to be worth billions of dollars

Part of China's Great Wall not built for war: study

New research helps solve a 150-year-old mystery by delving into the neurological mechanisms that explain the effect of general anesthetics.

A study, led by the University of York, has examined fossil reefs near to the now-submerged Red Sea shorelines that marked prehistoric migratory routes from Africa to Arabia. The findings suggest this coast offered the resources necessary to act as a gateway out of Africa during periods of little rainfall when other food sources were scarce.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain outside Atlanta

Thirty years ago, Alfred Wetzler died in his native Slovakia. He and his friend, Rudolf Vrba, risked their lives and escaped Auschwitz so they could warn other Jews and the world in precise detail what was happening behind the fences and gates of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

The Gjellestad ship is roughly 1,200 years old.

Bayesian model-based analysis points to resilient, cooperative society well beyond 1600.

In June 1348, people in England began reporting mysterious symptoms. They started off as mild and vague: headaches, aches, and nausea. This was followed by painful black lumps, or buboes, growing in the armpits and groin, which gave the disease its name: bubonic plague. The last stage was a high fever, and then death.

More than 6 million people, most of them Jews, died in the Holocaust. The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist.

The novelist wrote much of her hugely influential work when she lived in Bath about 200 years ago.

Experts believe up to 500 people guillotined in period may be buried in Chapelle Expiatoire

How a tangy, mellow cheese developed in the English countryside more than 200 years ago became loved around the world

Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island's societal collapse.

Across the Mediterranean region, in fields and on roadsides, thrives a small plant with silvery leaves. It doesn't look like much, and in many cases it's an annoying weed. But in the Middle Ages, Chrozophora tinctoria was highly prized.

The institution took decades to come to grips with the trauma of the killing of four students 50 years ago

With news this week of the discovery of what could be the earliest known siddur, a Jewish prayer book dated at around 840 AD – we have put together a list of 10 of the oldest known surviving books in the world today. Writing and literature are thought to have been first developed between the 7th and 4th millenium BC. Since the dawn of writing an incredible array of different materials have been used for recording text, including clay, silk, pottery, papyrus, even coffins – so the question of the oldest surviving book depends very much on how you classify one.

In 1991, Mark Lanegan needed a bassist for his band, grunge forebears Screaming Trees. Spying a six-foot-something, intense bassist playing with a then-unknown band, Lanegan thought he had found his man.