A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...
MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls.
NARRATOR: Up next on NOVA, Cracking the Maya Code. NARRATOR: In the 16th century, the flames of the Spanish Inquisition scorched the New World, decimating the Maya civilization. One blaze was ignited ...
The encrypted initiation rite of an ancient German secret society preoccupied with ophthalmology has fallen to modern language analysis tools including an online automatic translator. The 19th Century ...
From bizarre ancient markings to random numbers and letters, codes and ciphers have been used for millennia to send secret messages, hide identities and operate outside the law. Unravelling these ...
Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
New research on a clump of hair found buried deep in the ice of Greenland has revealed a snapshot of what ancient man looked like. To date DNA sequencing has used modern samples from living people, ...