The symptoms were alarming. In the 18th century a new disease appeared in Britain. It “gnaw[ed] at a man’s entrails”; turned healthy men into “thinking phantom[s]”; caused lethargy, depression and the ...

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Peter Perla, the late sage of modern wargaming, explained how wargames facilitate proofing through what he called the “cycle of research.” The cycle is the sum of wargaming, exercises, and analysis, ...

Genetic material preserved in ancient grape seeds reveals when, and how, humans meddled with wine grapes. By Rebecca Dzombak Humans have been drinking wine for thousands of years. Paintings from ...

Researchers in Egypt have discovered a massive trove of what amount to ancient notepads. The 43,000 ostraca—sherds of broken pottery onto which Egyptians scrawled short messages—were excavated from ...

Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange new attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out the top of a circular pit. It is just the ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...

“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded ...

More than a century ago, a scratched-up slab of limestone was excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and later deemed an ancient Roman game board. Since then, the mysterious game has eluded ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...