Richard III has been held responsible for the murder of his nephews for centuries. King Richard III’s involvement in one of the most notorious and…
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January 5, 2021. (Click image for wider, high-resolution view.) A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system…
The remains of an individual buried in the Augustinian friary, taken during the 2016 excavation on the University of Cambridge’s New Museums site. Credit: Nick…
Wool fibers dyed with Royal Purple,~1000 BCE, Timna Valley, Israel. Credit: Dafna Gazit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority Joint research by the Israel Antiquities…
When Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in a two-story house in Atlanta, the city had 715,000 residents. (His father changed his…
Researchers analyzed embalming material from the neck of this Ancient Egyptian mummy, which was acquired by a French museum in 1837. Credit: Frédérique Vincent, ethnographic…
Northeastern Asia has a complex history of migrations and plague outbursts. That is the essence of an international archaeogenetic study published in Science Advances and…
The ruins of the Roman Forum, once a site of a representational government. Credit: (c) Linda Nicholas, Field Museum All good things must come to…
Sledgeteam 1 from The Denmark Expedition 1906-08. From left expedition commander Mylius-Erichsen, Niels Peter Høeg Hagen and Jørgen Brønlund. All three died on the expedition.…
December 13, 2020 When British explorer Ernest Shackleton and the crew of HMS Endurance lost their ship to crushing pack ice in the Weddell Sea…
UV fluorescence examination. Credit: The authors Analyses of the materials in the scrolls helps put the object into a historical context and guides conservators in…
Photo of bomb craters converted into fish ponds in Vietnam, 2015. Credit: Mihai Daniel Nita Researchers are using Cold War spy satellite images to explore…
Discovery of 66 New Roman Army Sites Reveals Clues About One of the Empire’s Most Infamous Conflicts
Roman military presence in Castile. Credit: romanarmy.eu The discovery of dozens of new Roman Army sites thanks to remote sensing technology has revealed more about…
Smallpox deaths (blue) in London, England, 1664-1930, and the long-term trend of weekly births (red). Credit: Olga Krylova and David J.D. Earn Researchers from McMaster…
In 1533, the Bom Jesus — a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks…
A segment of fiber cord that has been wrapped with turkey feathers, along with a single downy feather. Credit: WSU The ancient inhabitants of the…
By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, RIT students revealed that a 15th-century manuscript leaf held in RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript…
Detail of a medical treatise (inv. P. Carlsberg 930) from the Tebtunis temple library with headings marked in red ink. Image credit: The Papyrus Carlsberg…
The East Smithfield cemetery, located in London, built in 1348. Credit: Museum of London Archeology McMaster University researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a…
Left: Graphic combining energy spectra measured by RToo scanner (© InsightART, 2019); Right: RToo scanning the painting Madonna and Child. Credit: © Jiří Lauterkranc, 2019,…