An Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, has yielded the skeleton of a woman who had been buried with a cow. At first it was thought that the animal might have been a horse. “Male warriors might be buried with horses, but a woman and a cow is new to us,” said archaeology student Jake Nuttall. […]

A Roman road made of marble has been unearthed in Thessaloniki, its surface marked with ruts from carts. Beneath it, archaeologists found a road built by the Greeks some 2,300 years ago. “We have found roads on top of each other, revealing the city’s history over the centuries. The ancient road, and side roads perpendicular […]