Looting the templesHernando Pizarro supervises removal of treasure from the Pachacamac Temple in a 17th-century engraving from Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas’s Décadas. AKG/Album Meanwhile ...

A British metal detectorist discovered a gold band with an engraved date-of-death in Norfolk.

Fly-whisks are used ritually to fan temple idols and sacred objects such as the Sikh holy book in gurudwaras, and are a ...

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Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The original Hellblade was a timed console exclusive for the PS4 in ...

The bronze ring has been dated to be from the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when the Israeli region was part of the Province of Syria Palaestina under the Roman Empire. "During the walk, I noticed a ...

The place today looks much as it must have in the summer of 1792: a row of sandstone facades, neat and formal as an 18th-century engraving, sloping gently toward the Luxembourg Palace. In a third ...

In the early 8th century, Muhammad bin Qasim’s invasion brought significant political and religious shifts to the area. Story continues below this ad Further upriver, in Kashmir, the 9th-century Hindu ...

The king and the sibylTarquinius Superbus purchases the three remaining Sibylline books from the Cumaean Sibyl in a late 18th-century engraving by S.D. Myris. Mary Evans/Scala, Florence The ...

The roots of the Scottish Deerhound run deep into the misty Highlands of Scotland. Dating back to before the ninth century, these massive hounds were prized by clan chieftains for their ability to ...

The original ninth century Pictish cross slab Skinnet Stone is on show at the North Coast Visitor Centre in Thurso, but parts of it are missing and carvings eroded over time, so heritage sculptor ...