J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The ...

A group of friends using metal detectors in Somerset stumbled on a buried hoard containing 2,584 medieval coins. Called the Chew Valley Hoard, the coins date from the years around the Norman Conquest ...

Long before it became a cozy symbol of holiday warmth, burning of large wooden log during Christmastime had deep spiritual ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

Long before it became a cozy symbol of holiday warmth, burning of large wooden log during Christmastime had deep spiritual ...

Between 24 and 26 December 1914 there was a spontaneous truce declared by the French, English and German soldiers, who came out into the open on the two fronts and met in no man’s land. They spoke to ...

There are certain accoutrements that rulers across time appear to have agreed are necessary symbols of power. You probably want a crown, which might be made of precious metal, leaves, or possibly even ...

I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward from the ...

As the first true open world Soulsborne, players are able to fully explore the Lands Between more freely than ever before in ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...