In the hands of great raconteurs like Stephen Fry, the retelling of classical stories turns into a form of its own ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

Archaeologists have reconstructed the skeleton and DNA of the Norse “well man” of ... old at the time of death. The latest ...

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“There are a lot of these medieval and ancient ... of death. Radiocarbon dating of the bones indicated the remains were about 940 years old, give or take 30 years, consistent with the Well ...

an ancient Athenian long-distance runner, who in 490BC before the Battle of Marathon, was sent to Sparta to seek help in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. This year the race had ...

In the study, published on Friday in the journal iScience, researchers used ancient ... at the time of death. The latest findings also suggest that the “reality” of the well man is “much ...

Ars Technica: Your definition of a minimal concept of death is one that provides variability at the species level as well as variability ... very animal, very ancient in her that probably has ...

and the teaching of ancient Greek as well as the history of science from samples of Greek scientific writing in mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, medicine and technology. Underneath the ...

Researchers have used genetic sequencing on skeletal remains to corroborate a Norse historical tale, blending history with ...

The body of a man thrown down a well over 800 years ago has finally been identified from his DNA. A passage in the Norse ...