140-year-old ‘time capsule’ discovered hidden inside church pulpit

Rare 1776 Declaration of Independence discovered at UK National Archives

A rare 1776 printing of the US Declaration of Independence — one of just 11 known to survive and the only copy outside the United States — has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, England.

Study uncovers lost 'Golden Age' of the world's languages

A new study published in the journal Science has revealed that the world once experienced a remarkable "golden age" of linguistic diversity, with researchers estimating that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.

The witch of Great Paxton: When superstition turned to persecution

The tragic story of a Cambridgeshire woman accused of witchcraft more than two centuries ago is shedding light on how fear, superstition and social exclusion continued to fuel violent persecution long after Britain's witch trials had officially ended.

Expedition unveils first detailed images of Robert Falcon Scott's final ship - Terra Nova

AI tool revolutionises the study of ancient cuneiform texts

Researchers in Germany have unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of identifying individual variations in cuneiform writing, marking a major breakthrough in the study of the ancient Near East.

Lost Bibliotheca Palatina manuscript identified in university library collection

A fifteenth-century manuscript held for decades in the collection of Heidelberg University Library has been identified as part of the famed Bibliotheca Palatina, one of the most important libraries of the Renaissance.

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.