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Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the rediscovery of the ancient city of Imet in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, uncovering multi-storey dwellings, granaries and a ceremonial road tied to the worship of the cobra goddess Wadjet.

New research cast doubts over suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland, 5500 years ago.

New research by a leading historian shows a surprising historical perspective on being British. In late medieval Scotland the island of Britain was sometimes seen as fundamentally Scottish.

The Bavarian Danube Moss was once the largest fen in southern Germany. Since the late 18th century, the moss has been systematically drained and has since lost its natural character. A new interdisciplinary study led by the University of Leipzig now provides the first reconstruction of these profound changes over a period of 237 years and has been published in the renowned "E&G Quaternary Science Journal".

The University of Manchester is set to launch the Manchester Digital Dante Library, a landmark digital collection which will make some of the rarest and most significant early printed editions of Dante's Divine Comedy available freely online for the first time.

The Dutch historic landscape is under threat. Changes in the agricultural sector, rising sea levels, drought, and flooding urgently call for measures that will drastically alter the landscape.

A new study led by researchers from our top-rated Archaeology department has revealed that 3300 years ago, tin mined in south-west Britain was a key resource for major Bronze Age civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean thousands of kilometres away.

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Fascism is not a template, but an ideology of action, emphasizes historian Dr. Daniel Hedinger from the University of Leipzig.

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study reveals.

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labelled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically feature a narrow passage leading to an internal chamber, covered by a large circular mound.

In the study, researchers including Oxford archaeologists Shadreck Chirikure and Helena Hamerow considered the implications for wealth distribution of variation in house sizes and their storage capacities within settlements, and how land use and farming practices impacted this variation. They found that in regions with land-intensive farming systems, such as those with specialised animal traction for ploughing, high wealth inequality became persistent, with a small number of households controlling productive land.

Archaeologists uncover unique ensemble from antiquity during excavations on Sicily Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast.

Prof. Andrew Thompson, a leading expert in global and imperial history in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Traf

Finding written sources, analysing them and using the results of the analysis to answer a research question - this is how historians work.

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.

Radboud University was commissioned by the Gemeente Nijmegen to conduct research into the role of municipal administration in colonial slavery.

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher.