Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...

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

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

Research led by local historian Catherine Corless indicated that 796 babies and young children were buried in a sewage system ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Excavations begin on Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...

Bulgaria was on the frontier of the Roman Empire, part of the 1,800km-long Danube Limes of forts and fortified cities.

Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

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