Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. Every old object has a story to tell. When researchers dust off an object during an excavation, a new window opens into the past. Each piece recovered is a small clue … Read more
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. Every old object has a story to tell. When researchers dust off an object during an excavation, a new window opens into the past. Each piece recovered is a small clue … Read more
The eight milkmaids have hunkered down in the Elizabeth Salon – or so it seems – leaving a pastel tower of buckets, cows and three-legged stools beneath the ornately painted ceiling. Next door, seven sculptural swans swim through a beautiful silver centerpiece above a large banquet table, while six life-size geese have laid Fabergé-esque eggs … Read more