These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

David Musgrove reports on new research that casts light on the appearance of the comet in the 11th century, and its depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

Discover the history of the world’s first university, its origins, founder, and global impact. Explore how ancient centres of ...

There are 15 mysterious stone altars in Hogwarts Legacy that later reveal themselves to be Astronomy Tables. While you may come across them in the Highlands very early in your quest, you cannot use ...

Explore the controversial Phantom Time Hypothesis, which claims we are actually living in the year 1726 and questions the ...

New findings have revealed that a supernova struck Earth 10 million years ago, and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth.