For over a century, a priceless piece of mathematical history has been hiding in plain sight. Deep within the archives of a municipal museum in the French city of Blois, a medieval parchment ...

The skeleton is the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated ...

The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was one of the largest and most dramatic popular uprisings in medieval Europe. But what do we really know about this celebrated event in English history? The rising was ...

Researchers had long assumed the art inside Font-de-Gaume in France was made with pigments that couldn't be analyzed using ...

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the ...

A remarkable discovery in Izernore, France, has unearthed ancient wooden writing tablets. These nearly two-thousand-year-old relics provide a unique window into Roman provincial life. The waterlogged ...

France has returned a looted sacred talking drum to Ivory Coast, marking the first official restitution of precious artifacts from France to the west African nation after they were looted during the ...

One of three missing pages from Archimedes' palimpsest, a 10th century manuscript containing several copies of the Greek scientist's ancient texts, has been found by a researcher in the archives of ...

It all started off as a joke, a French researcher told AFP. But what the team found was a piece of history—a long-lost page from a legendary manuscript by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes which ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

These remarkable women broke every rule of their time, risking their lives disguising themselves as men to fight in some of ...