History

Interdisciplinary studies in paleogenetics and archeozoologyCredit: Magdalena Krajcarz A loner and a hunter with highly developed territorial instincts, a cruel carnivore, a disobedient individual: the cat. These features…

Credit: Maike Glöckner / MLU Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more than 1,000 years ago. This has been indicated by new analyses done on an almost complete cat skeleton…

Released on the 800th anniversary of the creation of Saint Thomas Becket's shrine, stunning CGI reconstruction uses new evidence to show how it would have likely appearedCredit: John Jenkins The shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, the…

What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? This was first observed in 1893 and was described experimentally in 1904 without all the secrets of this "dead water"…

250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had contracted syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated. The same study shows that Georgian Londoners were over twice as likely to be treated for the disease as people living…

Archaeologists from Cardiff University and the University of Sheffield have combined the latest scientific methods to offer new insights into life during the Norman Conquest of England. Until now, the story of the Conquest has primarily…

An autobiography by Martin Karplus, nobel laureate in chemistry (with over 200 illustrations)Credit: World Scientific Escaping war and living as a refugee in a foreign land would destroy most childhoods. But to Nobel Laureate…

World Scientific publishes 'China's Millennium Transformation, the Belt and Road Initiative,' an unusual book by Da Hsuan FengCredit: World Scientific Ever since President Xi initiated the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, it…

The first underwater Aboriginal archaeological sites have been discovered off Australia dating back thousands of years ago Credit: Flinders University The first underwater Aboriginal archaeological sites have been…

Ms. Magazine included the book on its list of 'June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us.' Credit: The University of Toledo A new book by a disability history scholar and Helen Keller expert at The University of Toledo tells the…

National Endowment for the Humanities funds interdisciplinary project Scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology are developing affordable imaging systems to help libraries and museums preserve and expand access to their…

The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.E. triggered a 17-year power struggle that ultimately ended the Roman Republic leading to the rise of the Roman Empire. To the south, Egypt, which Cleopatra was attempting…

Ice core samples provide new evidence of a massive volcanic eruption in 43 BCECredit: DRI An international team of scientists and historians has found evidence connecting an unexplained period of extreme cold in ancient Rome…

Innovative practical elements are at the core of a new doctoral training program on Roman inscriptions; network of eight European partners selected in EU evaluation processCredit: photo/©: P. Kruschwitz Johannes Gutenberg…

We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was celebrating our bicentennial, and launched while Singapore is battling COVID-19, one of the…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A world-famous author by the early 1930s, Ernest Hemingway was no stranger to the literary elite. A new volume of his letters reveals details about his friendships with fellow writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, as…

DNA science may help restore, preserve historic works, unmask counterfeits; The trait elite baseball hitters share with Leonardo da Vinci: A 'quick eye' with higher 'frames per second' -- a function of training, genetics, or both?Credit:…

Credit: Ken Williams, shadowsandstone.com > The genome of an adult male from the heart of the world famous Newgrange passage tomb points to first-degree incest, implying dynasty and echoing local place-name folklore…

While the first half of the twentieth century marked a period of extraordinary violence, the world has become more peaceful in the past 30 years, a new statistical analysis of the global death toll from war suggests While the first half of…

According to the Danish Act on Listed Buildings, listed buildings must reflect Danish housing and working conditions throughout history. An extensive study conducted by, among others, a UCPH researcher, demonstrates that since 1945, the…