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8 July 2025 The Future is the Product of the Past

Pendant showing the only known Viking-Age depiction of a pregnant body. The artefact was found in a 10th century, Swedish burial for a woman, buried with a rich and varied artefacts assemblage as well as animals -- one interpretations is that she was a 'seeress'/ritual specialist. Credit: O. Myrin, The Swedish History Museum/SHM

A First! This Study on Pregnancy in the Viking Age Illuminates Warrior Women and the Fate of Babies

14 May 2025

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary study by Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester has shed new light on the...

Carbonized paper, found with other images in an 1858 published book by Giacomo Castrucci.

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Ancient Latin texts written on papyrus reveal new information about the Roman world

11 January 2023

Researchers funded by the European Union have deciphered ancient Latin texts written on papyrus. This work could reveal a lot...