The Birth of Modern Science It was in the 17th century that modern science was really born, and the world began to be examined more closely, using instruments such as the telescope, microscope ...

A new study of 17th-century remains from a crypt in Milan shows ... According to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, an analysis of brain tissue from human remains ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings ...

The smallpox came in the mail, in a little piece of 350-year-old human skin. And the surprise discovery is dramatically rewriting the history of one of the most notorious diseases to plague humankind.