Alan Cannon

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,100 Viking Age coins in a field in eastern Norway. It is the largest discovery of Viking coins in Norway to date.

The Franklin Expedition, which began in 1845, was one of the greatest tragedies in polar exploration. Because no one returned alive from this search for the Northwest Passage.

A shipwreck discovered during excavations off the Spanish port city of Cadiz has proven to be a merchant ship with a prominent fate.

A Neanderthal's 59,000-year-old tooth provides evidence of the oldest known tooth decay treatment.

After a good 400 years: A manuscript from the 15th century has turned out to be a lost codex from the Bibliotheca Palatina – the most important German library of the Renaissance.

“… ask your doctor or in your pharmacy”: In keeping with the presto rattled off final sentence of medication advertisements, today's pharmacy acts as a transshipment point for standardized large-scale products. But she was by no means always that way. A museum built out of private passion takes you into a completely different world.

The French astronomer Camille Flammarion made this supposedly medieval wood engraving that bears his name known in his work “L'Atmosphère.

The plaster casts of some volcanic victims from Pompeii are world famous. Now a new discovery reveals more about the identity of one of the dead

During construction work in Aschaffenburg, archaeologists discovered the surprisingly well-preserved relics of a structure made of oak beams and stone masonry on the banks of the Main.

In the Middle Ages, the toxic heavy metal mercury was considered an effective remedy against skin rashes and leprosy.