Archaeologists have raised what they are calling the first uniform, co-ordinated weapons system from a late sixteenth-century English shipwreck off the coast of Alderney. “We cannot wait to get a closer look at it once it has been cleaned up. Archaeologically and historically, this is an important day,” said Menus Bound of Oxford University. A […]

The skeletons of 16 horses, a two-wheeled chariot, and two human skeletons were found in a Roman grave in northeastern Greece. The chariot would have been used in war or for hunting, and was decorated with a frieze relief in bronze depicting three of Hercules’ labors. The practice of slavery in Philadelphia came to light […]