Emperor Franz Joseph I relied on micro-management and bureaucracy (Image: ÖNB)
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria left around a quarter of a million documents...
Historical depiction of the storming of a fortified property in the English Civil War. (Image: duncan1890 / iStock)
Atrocities in the context of the...
Researchers analyzed this roughly three millimeter blob in Jørgen Brønlund's diary. (Image: Kaare Lund Rasmussen / SDU)
Tragedy in the cold of Greenland: The...
Outlines of the two dead preserved in ashes. (Image: Parco archeologico di Pompei)
In Pompeii, archaeologists have discovered another testimony to the dramatic events...
First edition of Isaac Newton's Principia. (Image: Caltech Archives)
Isaac Newton founded classical physics in 1687 with his main work "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"....
Artist's impression of a huntress in South America 9000 years ago. (Image: Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services)
Finds in Peru contradict...
Black students faced the wrath of white women following the desegregation in the United States. (Image: gmast3r / iStock)
Racist female power: a historian...
Skull of an approximately 11,000 year old dog. (Image: EE Antipina)
Researchers present new insights into the age-old common history of dogs and humans:...
Writing on a papyrus from the Tebtunis Temple Library. (Image: Papyrus Carlsberg Collection)
Surprising ingredient discovered: lead apparently already ensured that writing in some...
Exposed burial mound in the Caucasus region. (Image: Anatoliy Kantarovich, DAI Eurasia Department)
How did the people of the Caucasus region live in the...