Europeans used standardized bars of iron mined in northern Europe to purchase humans during the slave era, transforming the coastal landscape of West Africa.

Though part of the mainland county of Cornwall, the Scilly Islands offer visitors an encounter with history and the environment like no other.

One case study demonstrates how contemporary assumptions about gender in ancient societies risk obscuring the larger picture.

Gambling is one of humankind’s oldest activities. Elaborate technologies and customs have emerged around games of chance. Dice in particular have drawn attention from scholars.

Neanderthals, suggest recent studies, had complex societies and even some culture.

More than two thousand years ago, the Mayans of eastern Guatemala used ceramic teapots to pour themselves hot ...