On a farm outside Saintfield, County Down, 10 young adults with additional needs get their weekly farming fix. It's a world away from their home lives in urban areas of east Belfast and north Down.

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis officials announced Monday that they are demolishing eight vacant buildings in December at Towne and Terrace. Towne and Terrace is a townhome complex that was built in the ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between 230 and 270 — when the predominant religions in Europe were Judaism and paganism — has been virtually illegible until now. Specialists from ...

These findings also help clarify the timeline and routes of ancient human migrations from Africa. A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, ...

An ancient farming method that made the deserts of the Middle East bloom 1,000 years ago should be revived today, say experts in Israel. The “plot-and-berm” system, developed in the early Islamic ...

Archaeologists uncovered a basalt tablet in the Bashplemi Lake region of Georgia with an unknown language carved into its face. The tablet featured 60 characters across seven rows. Experts said ...

So special, that ancient Incas revered it as the ‘fabric of the gods’. Extremely light and fine, consumerist society today celebrates it as the rarest, most expensive fibre available in the market.

There, canals have become a tourist attraction and its ancient Aztec farming techniques have largely been forgotten, leaving the city’s ecosystem at risk. “We go to Xochimilco with mariachi ...

Despite this early separation, the Neanderthal ancestry in Zlatý kůň and Ranis originated from the same ancient admixture event that can be detected in all people outside Africa today.