The horned helmet motif existed long before the Vikings. (Image: Michael Burrell / iStock)
The horned helmet is often considered the typical headgear of...
Sampling from an impregnated sediment block for the analysis of old DNA. (Image: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology)
How has the genetic material survived the...
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...