When you imagine the specimen stores of natural history collections, you might picture rows of jars containing mysterious samples suspended in an even more mysterious liquids. We might assume that these fluids are far less mysterious to those who work…
A major project at the Tower of London has revealed hundreds of graffiti written by prisoners, as well as other historical visitors to the site, thanks to cutting-edge technology. The initiative, conducted by Dr Jamie Ingram as part of his…
New research indicates that windows with glass panes may have been present in Viking Age buildings in Scandinavia.
The British Museum said that it would continue to use the word ‘mummy’, but would use the name of the mummified person wherever this was known
The recipe in question is recorded in an ancient Chinese text known as the Kaogong ji, which is believed to be the world’s first encyclopaedia of technology, probably dating to c.300 BC.
Today, glass is a commodity so ubiquitous and cheap that we take it for granted, but it wasn’t always so. A new book by David Dungworth traces the rise of glass from small-scale manufacturing in the medieval period to the major industrial production of the 20th century. Chris Catling reports.