ARCHAEOLOGY

Scythians were fond of horses, fighting, gold and getting high on hemp seeds.

A new study suggests there is a relationship between earthquakes and the culture of Ancient Greece.

The team used cutting-edge technology to identify the prehistoric artwork.

The 'code' is actually Latin shorthand and the book is missing an index, historian finds.

A microbial war waged on the document's surface left purple stains from the loser.

The landscape by the Humber River is one of constant change over millennia.

Where did the fateful rendezvous happen?

All of the children interred were less than 4 years old.

The coins were concealed in a defensive gate tower in Człuchów castle.

Italian scientists will put to rest at last the controversy over Pliny the Elder's remains.

The sea dragon, which is believed to have pre-dated dinosaurs, was pregnant at the time of its death.

Bellerophon, Pegasus, the Chimaera, Hercules, centaurs and Cupid all feature in this unprecedented discovery.

Researchers, who discovered fossil, say the footprints have 'an unmistakably human-like form'.

Enormous squares, octagons and circles dot the landscape between the Amazonian forests.

A 200-year mystery has finally been solved by the gruesome account of a Pacific Island castaway.

No one knows why the village was abruptly abandoned 50 years after it was built.

The fossils of the new dinosaur, called Shingopana songwensis, date back to the Cretaceous Period.

A 12,000-year-old skeleton was found among sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.

Pottery hidden in a Sicilian cave contains the oldest traces of Italian wine ever discovered.

Babylonians beat the Greeks to this form of advanced mathematics by 1,000 years.

The Confederate submarine crew died instantly - but their bodies showed no mark of injury or struggle.

The 4th century text has been translated into English for the first time.

The vanished farmers of Engaruka manipulated the river to benefit their crops.

Painting of a young woman was damaged when it was excavated 70 years ago.

Toxic levels of antimony were found in a Roman water pipe from Pompeii.

The original tiles of the baths can still be seen.

The spectacular villa was occupied for 500 years straight.

Joya de Cerén was a small Maya village buried under ash in the 7th century.

Which culture first turned ore into metal?