Journal of Archaeological Science Despite disco being centuries away, residents of 17th century Italy may have had a hankering for cocaine. Preserved human brains from Milan tested positive for ...

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A new study of 17th-century remains from a crypt in Milan shows traces of an active component of the coca plant in the subjects’ brain tissue. This suggests Europeans used coca leaves earlier ...

Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton ship pass through A full-sized replica of a 17th-century Spanish warship is due to arrive in London. Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

The team studied the remains of people entombed in the Ca' Granda crypt, which was used as a burial site for approximately the entirety of the 17th century. As part of their work, they discovered ...

The Kimbell Art Museum announced on Friday that it has acquired a long-lost 17th-century painting depicting the Christian saint Mary Magdalene. For perhaps the first time since its creation ...

This fragment of a gold lock ring from 1000-800 BC was found in a field at Holt in Wrexham A medieval gold ring, 17th Century silver coins and the fragment of a Bronze Age ring found in north ...

A witchcraft trial in England, 17th century. A suspected witch is lowered into the water to find out whether she would survive. If she did, she would be regarded as a witch. Witchcraft was a ...

According to the team, at least two preserved brains buried in a crypt near a 17th century hospital display evidence of the coca plant’s active components—cocaine, benzoylecgonine, and hygrine.