Flights to Lisbon from Manchester with TAP Air Portugal during February half term start at a very reasonable £134pp return.

Canada is among several countries with territorial claims to the Arctic, a region with shifting geopolitics due to climate change. Eric Sorensen explains why Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to U.S.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum.

The Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head features a woman’s face with carefully engraved details like her eyes, nose, mouth and ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

Experience the ancient city’s destruction and rebirth in this immersive exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

There’s nothing like grabbing a morning espresso, then hopping on a train and setting off to an unknown destination. When I ...

The iconic Greek holiday island is literally shaking, and residents are escaping while they can.

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...