The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

While much has been written about the race to modernize industry and agriculture in fascist Italy, the history of animal ...

US President Donald Trump reignited controversy by openly repeating his past slur about “shithole countries” at a ...

A leading Surrealist, Meret Oppenheim brought her singular vision of domesticity to life in this 18th-century Alpine summer ...

While much has been written about the race to modernize industry and agriculture in fascist Italy, the history of animal husbandry during this period has largely been overlooked by scholars. The ...

Disney’s film presented Iguanodon as a heroic and familiar dinosaur, but the real animal was far stranger. Paleontologists ...

From “Mary Poppins” to “Downton Abbey,” afternoon tea is a quintessentially British ritual. It’s a tradition that started with a hangry duchess and expanded to hearty evening spreads for working-class ...

Did you know that Coca-Cola was a failed cure for headaches? We like to believe that every great invention starts with a genius plan. But sometimes, success sneaks up when no one’s looking. Some of ...