While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

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The appointment of a Ukrainian judge who visited Russia and occupied Crimea during Moscow's war against Ukraine has sparked criticism from the head of the country’s main judicial watchdog. The High ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

These modern concerns bear a striking resemblance to Butler's 19th-century call for pausing mechanical progress. Even if machines never become truly intelligent, Butler's predictions about our ...

Florence Nightingale was one of the most extraordinary women of her own - or any - century, and one of the most difficult and uncompromising:- it was no fun to be her parents, or her long-suffering ...

The Russian army has deployed additional air defense systems to Crimea to protect key military targets, thus exposing other parts of the front, according to agents of the Ukrainian partisan movement ...

In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking ... His employers were usually wealthy landlords who hired him to map their estates to determine how much their tenant farmers owed ...

But their origins stretch back even further, to the earliest years of the United States of America in the late 18th century. The current 12th Duke of Atholl is a South Africa-based businessman who ...

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...