In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But when researchers examined hundreds of skeletons, they discovered something ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

This experiment recreates a Viking style kitchen using open fire iron cookware and historically inspired ingredients The ...

A belt buckle featuring a snake devouring a frog discovered in the A bronze belt buckle featuring a snake devouring a frog is ...

The discovery adds to the Archimedes Palimpsest, an important medieval manuscript containing texts from the Greek ...

ZME Science reports that Shlomi Katzin of the University of Haifa discovered a three-foot-long Crusader-era sword encrusted with shells and sand while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel’s ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Scientists are reconstructing the oldest known map of the night sky - long thought lost to time - by using X-rays to reveal its secrets.

At some point, you’ve probably heard the phrase “since time immemorial”. Probably you assumed it referred to some hand-wavey, far-distant time; literally the limit of history, past which not even oral ...

It's been over half a century since Star Trek set a new bar for sci-fi time travel stories with this masterpiece episode.

The N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort's annual Whales and Whaling Symposium March 20 will explore whales and whaling from multiple perspectives, highlighting both the cultural history of whaling and ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...