Volunteers were baffled recently when they unearthed not one but two ancient shoes at a historic British site.

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Jim Robinson of Casper found a pair of rare mule-ear cowboy boots from the 1890s in a dusty old cabin in Colorado. You’ve ...

If you think eating insects is gross, you may be in the cultural minority. Throughout history, people have relished insects as food. Today, many cultures still do. Ten thousand years ago hunters ...

Discovered at Magna Fort near Hadrian's Wall, the exceptionally well-preserved leather shoe measures 32 centimeters.

Similarly, whilst GlaxoSmithKline’s origins can be traced back as far as 1715, it was only in the middle of the 19th century that Beecham became involved in the industrial production of medicine ...

Guest: Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. He is an expert on Global Finance & Banking and the author of several books including Austerity: The History of a ...

Pagans mocked the early Christians for worshipping a crucified God. According to 2nd-century Roman graffiti discovered in 1856 on Palatine, a Christian is caricatured as praying to a crucified figure.

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