New research suggests rickets was common long before the Industrial Revolution, when pollution blocked out sunlight
The "Wheat and Barley" pregnancy test described in a recently translated medical text has been practiced for thousands of years
The Scottish queen spent 14 years imprisoned at the medieval stronghold
The 17th-century painter mastered an array of genres at a time when most female artists were consigned to painting flowers
The monument has sparked diplomatic tensions with Japan
A new analysis shows that the Egyptian mummies were being made long before 2600 B.C.
Italian researchers also found traces of disease-causing bacteria in what they believe is probably extremely aged cheese.
The toxic clump of sewage oil and waste housed at the Museum of London has, so far, changed colors, ‘sweated,’ hatched flies and grown yellow pustules
The exhibition asks visitors to revisit the objects in their daily life that are often taken for granted
Early hominins' big toes were equipped for life on the ground and in the trees
Basalt axes from one quarry area indicate cooperation between clans, not warfare over resources as previously hypothesized
“168:01,” an installation now on view at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, encourages visitors to donate books to the University of Baghdad
Neolithic farmers switched from cattle to goat herding, abandoned communal dwellings for smaller households to adjust to new climate
Curator considers three categories of 'fake news': error, hoax and truths deemed false
The volume was lost after Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the cathedral’s monastery
When the American Civil War crippled England’s cotton industry, impoverished workers turned to poetry to convey their plight
Researchers suggest early humans pursued “least-effort strategies” when crafting tools, collecting resources
<i>Maud</i>, which sunk in Arctic Canada in 1930, was floated across the Atlantic to its new home in a museum in Vollen
The online graduate program is a collaboration between Arizona State University and the National World War II Museum in New Orleans
It has long been believed that the famed poet was born in 1902, but his name appears in newspaper articles from 1901
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