Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In this video, I restore a rare Antique German bread guillotine by Peter Dienes, likely manufactured around the time of the ...

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The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

The Lower Germanic Lines, now in the Netherlands, had been considered the northernmost outpost of the Roman Empire. But the discovery of a fort at the Hoog Buurlo site in Veluwe, dated to the second ...