Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study in which Viking ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain ...

Severed heads were a unique funerary practice within the Iberian world and represent an exceptional opportunity to analyze these communities, of which limited archaeological record exists, since ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...