Fly above Denmark’s oldest town with this breathtaking drone video of Ribe. Witness over a thousand years of history from the air, gliding over the red-tiled roofs and winding cobblestone streets of ...

StarTalk looks at medieval medicine’s use of leeches and how modern science views the practice.

In a classic example of lucky metal detectorists triggering an archaeological investigation, a group of metal detecting ...

A new technique using tree-ring carbon data and historical records uncovered a solar event from 1200–1201 CE, offering ...

Researchers discovered a rare 15th-century letter from French Spider King Louis XI tucked away unnoticed in a Canadian university library collection for years.

The 'rubbish' left behind at a deserted medieval village in an isolated area of Yorkshire could hold clues about how societies achieve long-term 'green' prosperity, according to new research. The ...

Working on human pus in a medieval castle, Miescher discovered a substance that would eventually unlock our understanding of ...

Nuclear-powered alchemy could even be key to transitioning the world away from fossil fuels, according to one San Francisco ...

Spanish researchers say they identified 124 shipwrecks dating from the ancient world to WWI in the 29-square-mile Bay of ...

Diary entries by the Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika, along with other historical sources from across Asia and Europe, played ...

Ancient DNA and protein analysis reveal that modern Old Irish Goats are closely related to Bronze Age populations. This ...