Unsolved Mysteries: New Evidence That King Richard III Murdered “The Princes in the Tower”
King Richard III’s involvement in one of the most notorious and emotive mysteries in English history may be a step closer to being confirmed following…
King Richard III’s involvement in one of the most notorious and emotive mysteries in English history may be a step closer to being confirmed following…
A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system of wildlife refuges. Elaborate feathered hats—sometimes festooned with whole…
Social inequality was “recorded on the bones” of Cambridge’s medieval residents, according to a new study of hundreds of human remains excavated from three very…
Early Bronze Age cultures traded in bronze objects of standardized weight. In the Early Bronze Age of Europe, ancient people used bronze objects as an…
Joint research by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University. “King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of…
Cleveland, Ohio, and its expansive suburbs stretch inland from Lake Erie in this slightly oblique photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station…
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…
Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for the first time. The Washington State University researchers detected Mexican…
Ancient Egyptian mummies have many tales to tell, but unlocking their secrets without destroying delicate remains is challenging. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Analytical Chemistry…
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…
All good things must come to an end. Whether societies are ruled by ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives, they fall apart in time, with…
The Denmark Expedition set out to explore unknown Inuit land in 1906. Three members died. Chemical analysis of a black spot in a diary sheds…
When British explorer Ernest Shackleton and the crew of HMS Endurance lost their ship to crushing pack ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915, their…
Analyses of the materials in the scrolls helps put the object into a historical context and guides conservators in future restoration efforts. A picture may…
Researchers are using Cold War spy satellite images to explore changes in the environment, including deforestation in Romania, marmot decline in Kazakhstan and ecological damage…
The discovery of dozens of new Roman Army sites thanks to remote sensing technology has revealed more about one of the empire’s most infamous conflicts….
Researchers from McMaster University have studied and analyzed thousands of weekly records documenting the deaths of smallpox victims in London, England over the span of…
In 1533, the Bom Jesus — a Portuguese trading vessel carrying 40 tons of cargo including gold, silver, copper and more than 100 elephant tusks…