NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Phil Hartmeyer, is a marine archaeologist at NOAA's Ocean Exploration program, about a mural discovered in the shipwreck of the USS Yorktown, which sunk during WWII.

Archaeologists excavating a former fish market on the waterfront in downtown Barcelona have discovered the remains of a ...

Like so many of Europe's small-town wonders, Bruges is now well-pickled because its economy went sour so quickly. Here's how ...

News from Northumbria University that a medieval panel, discovered in the triforium in Hexham Abbey back in 2017, has been the subject of a research project. Work undertaken by Dr Charis ...

THREE OAKS — The 2025 Harbor Country Art Attack will kick off on Thursday, April 24, with a Launch Party filled with art and music at the Acorn Center for the Performing Arts, 107 Generations Drive, ...

NEW BUFFALO — New Buffalo Area Schools Middle/High School Art Teacher Ashley Jager proudly announced to the Board of Education on April 14th that 8th-grade student Gia Bergquist and 12th-grader Milo ...

DNA sequencing confirmed the finding, further identifying harbor seal and harp seal skins ... were rarely depicted in European Medieval art; bestiaries simply referred to the creature as a ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

The 9-month-old baby everyone called Bubby was in the middle of the fireball. A Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office deputy recorded an interview with the child’s father, who described it as a ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books were ... from harp, to harbor to bearded varieties.

DNA analysis revealed that eight of the skins were from harbor, harp ... The mammal was rarely depicted in medieval art, and neither did it hold a place in heraldry. “This lack of representation ...