The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient ...

Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the rigid etiquette and scheming courtiers of Versailles. Kennedy Fraser looks ...

This article was updated to include The New York Times' response to the criticism, sent to The Kyiv Independent via email.

Visiting the Tower of London has another attraction- the Black Death Mass Grave.

Archaeologists excavating a famous tourist location have uncovered 20 skeletons belonging to people they believe perished ...

Rome continued on after the Western Roman Empire fell but faced war and a population crash.

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 children are believed to be buried.

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the ...

The mass grave was identified after authorities detained a guerrilla in May whose cellphone contained photos of the victims and the crime, making it possible to locate the grave.

In a chilling reminder of the decades-long anti-Tamil racist war, a new mass grave has been discovered at Sittupatthu in Chemmani, on the outskirts of Jaffna town in northern Sri Lanka. This is ...