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In the 800-year old Norse Sverris Saga, the author recounts the gruesome tale of a corpse being thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of an under-siege castle in Norway. Now that corpse ...

Scientists corroborated an 800-year-old story about the literal poisoning of a well, according to a report in iScience. The Norse Sverris Saga, which recounts tales about King Sverre Sigurdsson, ...

When a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $120,000 in 2019, social media uproar and an age-old debate about the meaning of art ensued. But artist Maurizio Cattelan’s viral creation ...

Study co-author Michael Martin, an evolutionary geneticist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told Live Science this may be the first time a person in the Norse sagas had been ...

Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga. iScience , 2024; 111076 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076 Cite This Page : ...

“Larger-than-life” is one way to describe the National Gallery of Australia’s (NGA) latest and most expensive artwork, which was finally unveiled in Canberra after an exhilarating three-year wai ...

Stunning frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and Roman mythology were discovered at the Pompeii archaeological ... This small home offers a striking glimpse into ancient art and architectural changes ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

Sotheby’s is set to sell an artwork by a humanoid robot. You read that right, after a febrile few years in which the art world has learned to subsume NFTs, A.I. outputs, and cryptocurrencies ...