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 ...

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse (though the original texts would have been centuries older). Notably, ...

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

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 ...

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

It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D chess while we’re playing checkers. A gameplaying AI system has cracked a cryptic, Roman-era board game that has baffled scientists for ...

So: how long is “time immemorial”? Well, as of today, March 14, 2026, it’s exactly 836 years, 6 months, and 11 days. You know – not including the various calendar shenanigans of 1582 .

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Remnants of the Y-chromosomal lineage attributed to Genghis Khan were found in a set of medieval mausoleums attributed to his eldest son, Jochi.