Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

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Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its ...

A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained ...

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

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Cardinal Kevin Farrell broke the news on the Vatican's TV channel.

After the fights at Lexington and Concord's North Bridge, the British column had to return to Boston. On its way, the ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time between before and after.

Archaeologists in St Augustine, Florida, have unearthed remnants of the city's brief British colonial period during a recent ...