Extreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar. Researchers from the University of Basel have reported these findings in the journal Science. Combined ...
Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient ...
Archaeologists from Lancaster University have recovered a sixth-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury, Kent, and the weapon’s exceptional preservation and burial context place it ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of sixth-century coins in Phanagoria, an ancient Greek city located in what is today southwestern Russia. 80 copper staters—a type of Greek coin—were found in an ...
A stone statue of Dewi Sant inside St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire. Peter Barritt/Alamy The man we know as St David, or Dewi Sant in Welsh, lived in the sixth century in the west of the island of ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...