Research destroys theory that Chinese armourers used applications not discovered in the West until millennia later. Andrew Masterson reports.Chinese craftspeople did not – that’s did not – invent a sophisticated and highly effective anti-rust treatment mo
Researchers have succeeded in pinpointing the exact origins of 700-year-old Chinese pottery items recovered from a shipwreck.
Greek and Roman writers record the use of a substance called miltos as a decoration, a medicine – and a handy way to repair a boat. Now scientists have worked out why. Andrew Masterson reports.
A large Roman water-mill collection in France didn’t supply its adjacent city, as assumed. Andrew Masterson reports.
The key to Roman mercantile power turned into a lake more than 500 years ago. Now, researchers think they’ve found it again. Andrew Masterson reports.
Analyses show the use of ceramics was strongly linked to processing fish. Andrew Masterson reports.
Genetic sequencing shows descendants of Canaanites live on, in Lebanon.
A comparison of mummy genomes with those of modern Egyptians shows conquerors left little mark, writes Andrew Masterson.
