Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought
Ancient skeletons reveal the history of worm parasites in Britain; a new study published on PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
The Justinianic Plague began in 541 in the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled at the time by the Emperor Justinian I, and recurrent outbreaks ravaged Europe and the Mediterranean basin for approximately 200 years
A new study focusses on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 poem “Fears in Solitude”, written in 1798 “during the alarm of invasion”
An exceptionally-preserved fossil from Herefordshire in the UK has given new insights into the early evolution of sea cucumbers: the Sollasina Cthulhu