Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...

Turns out, the Dark Ages weren’t so dim when it came to wellness. Researchers have unearthed a trove of medical remedies dating back over a thousand years, revealing that early medieval Europeans were ...

A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert and found a staircase that wasn’t on any of the plans. It was just one of the ...

Diane Purkiss is affiliated with Keble College, University of Oxford. “You have to keep beating it for longer,” my grandmother instructed me. “It isn’t pale yet. It’s still too yellow.” I didn’t ask ...