“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth ...

Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the everyday soldiers ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor ...

The Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of ...

One of the things archaeology consistently teaches us is that humanity is remarkably resilient in the face of crisis. Another is that poop is forever. Archaeologists have already explored the contents ...

A 14th-century astrolabe, one of the important instruments of medieval science (Photo by Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This is a review I’ve been sitting on for a while, because I’ve ...

Medieval nun fakes death to escape convent and enjoy a life of carnal lust. Sounds like the basis for a juicy novel, but this really happened during the 14th century in England. Archivist and ...

The Light Ages. By Seb Falk. W.W. Norton; 320 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £20. IN THE 11TH century, nearly 500 years before Leonardo da Vinci drew a similar flying machine, a young monk called Eilmer ...

Faced with a range of serious patient reactions to the COVID-19 disease, doctors and nurses have sometimes struggled to find viable treatment options. But when we examine faith-based responses to the ...