A recent discovery at the Magna Roman Fort in northern England has left archaeologists scratching their heads. A collection ...

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Lady Sarah Aspinall, who has died aged 80, was a model in Swinging London whose marriages brought her into contact with two ...

Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...

Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists ...

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Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...