Dante’s Inferno may have predicted planetary impact physics centuries before modern science

New research suggests Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may have done more than shape literary history — it may also have anticipated concepts in planetary impact science centuries before modern meteoritics emerged.

Researchers recover lost pages from early New Testament manuscript

Researchers in the UK say they have reconstructed 42 missing pages from a major early Christian manuscript, using imaging and dating techniques to reveal text unseen for centuries.

Burial items linked to Warmian canons founds in Cathedral Crypt

Work beneath Frombork Cathedral has brought to light a collection of burial items linked to Warmian canons, including silk garments, cushions and a group of rarely seen chalices.

Lost seal of Edward the Confessor rediscovered in French archives

The sound of writing: how bird calls may have influenced hieroglyphs

Ancient papyrus discovery reveals lost verses by Empedocles

A remarkable discovery in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology has brought to light thirty previously unknown verses by Empedocles, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the work of one of ancient Greece’s most enigmatic thinkers.

Tracing the route of the Odyssey

Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript rediscovered in France

A page long believed to be missing from the famed Archimedes Palimpsest has been rediscovered at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, offering scholars new opportunities to study one of antiquity’s most important mathematical manuscripts.

19th-century ‘British Bulldog’ pocket revolver found in Polish forest

A heavily corroded 19th-century pocket revolver believed to be a British Bulldog has been discovered during a metal-detecting survey in a forest near Kalisz in western Poland.

Plane wreckage found on Antarctic island

Bulgarian scientists have uncovered the remains of an Argentine Air Force aircraft that crashed in 1976 near Bernard Point on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai

Decoration of the Military Order of Saint George

An authorised metal detectorist has made the rare discovery of a Cross of Saint George in the Chełm State Forests in eastern Poland.

History of the Knights Templar

Researcher constructs 3D interactive map of Tenochtitlan

Thomas Kole, a Dutch born Technical Artist, has constructed a 3D interactive map of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

Six “spooky” places across the UK to visit this Halloween

Ten Roman wonders of Britain

Inside “Magic Mountain” – The secret Cold War bunker

The mystery of a 1940’s Ford Woody discovered on USS Yorktown shipwreck

Macabre book discovery at Suffolk Museum

Modern technology unlocks Merlin’s secrets

Researchers study erratic boulders from Frosh Giant legends