Even minute pigment particles in the paint of De Nachtwacht have now been brought into sharp focus.
Researchers have succeeded in taking an extremely...
Notation for the beginning of Psalm 103: 28 from around 1400. (Image: Austrian National Library)
In the Byzantine Empire, religious rituals and the associated psalm...
Researchers have unearthed the fossilized remains of an as-yet-unknown marine reptile, measuring up to 17 meters in length from caudal fin to snout!
While dinosaurs...
Does this mean that the cruel torture ritual described in the Viking saga was actually performed…?
For decades, historians have debated whether a notoriously violent...
The embryo reveals the surprising way tiny dinosaurs folded inside their eggs.
Quite a few fossilized dinosaur eggs have been recovered over the past century....
Putting large mammals out in the Arctic to slow climate change makes little sense, according to researchers.
Global warming is thawing permafrost; the...
Archaeologists have found evidence that hominins already manipulated the landscape 125,000 years ago.
Deforestation is – unfortunately – the order of the day. Between...
The almost completely preserved leather-scale armor from China shows features of an Assyrian origin. (Image: DL Xu, P. Wertmann, M. Yibulayinmu)
Astonishingly far traveled:...
The child was buried with various grave goods, which shows that even the very youngest were recognized as full-fledged persons at the time.
About 10,000...