Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore

Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

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Archaeologists say the discovery suggests possible trading links between Viking and Anglo-Saxons.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

US president gifted new edition of Voyage of St Brendan, a book which has a centuries’ long back story

This article argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant recasts the Arthurian myth of British origins through what I deem a palimpsestic form of medievalism. This process of ‘rubbing and rewriting’...

The Palestinian Columbia student snatched by ICE writes about his Kafkaesque ordeal with a quiet fury

Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

With a character inspired by Wittgenstein, this exploration of the mysteries of the universe draws on multiple philosophical traditions

The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years ago The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists. The 23ft-long trackway – consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right – was first identified in the south-west of the state, in the dinosaur fossil area known as Hell Creek Formation, last year by researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado and Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Continue reading...

Part of Dmitry Donskoy’s right hand sent to ‘spiritually strengthen’ soldiers

De Ira - Volume 2

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The Devil's Arrows actually came from different site several miles away from previously thought.

Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

The government has temporarily blocked an Anglo-Saxon mount from being taken out of the UK permanently

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

Half a century on, Jim Henson’s fuzzy felt friends are as influential as Monty Python and the Beatles. It’s been a wild journey of nightclubbing, light operas, duetting with Debbie Harry and tying Joh...

A hernia may mean his screaming days are over, but the Napalm Death alum’s influence on metal echoes on in unexpected places – and with ‘heavy, ugly’ experiments in the pipeline, his passion for ‘outs...

Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland