Esoteric Source

Experts trying to work out why a church is falling down have revealed a host of fascinating secrets including a Roman Villa hidden underneath.

British stargazers can look forward to a dazzling meteor shower lighting up our skies this week in what is predicted to be the most impressive of annual celestial events.

ACADEMICS in Yorkshire have given a voice and a face to a man who died more about 4,000 years ago.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS on Orkney have discovered the first evidence in the UK of stonework painted with a pattern - suggesting ancient Scots enjoyed decorating.

Archaeologists are to investigate what might be a rare 5th Century Saxon hall or palace on farmland in Powys.

American researchers have found a striking correlation between the symptoms suffered by Alexander before his death in 323BC, and the effects of the highly toxic bacterium.

An archaeological site being excavated at Mġarr ix-Xini has further enforced the notion that viticulture and wine production have been an important part of the Maltese economy since the Classical period.

A royal tomb in an Etruscan necropolis in central Italy has yielded fresh archaeological finds during a summer dig, researchers say.

Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added things like underground tubers, roots and berries.

It wasn't a very high-calorie diet, so to get the energy you needed, you had to eat a lot and have a big gut to digest it all. But having a big gut has its drawbacks

It is unknown exactly how many fall victim to scams and cons by "brujeria" (witchcraft) in Costa Rica, only that in San José alone at least 10 criminal complaints are filed each year.