The story of the “Pharaoh’s Curse” haunted archaeologists for hundreds of years. It started with the excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and continued with the mysterious deaths of teams in Poland’s Casimir IV crypt in the 1970s. Scientists have now found a shocking twist: the fungus that was thought to be responsible for ...
Imagine walking through a dense, misty rainforest and realizing that, somewhere beneath your feet, a cure for cancer might have once grown—only we no longer know its name. The rustle of leaves above you whispers with secrets, but many of those secrets are silent now, erased by time, colonization, and forgotten languages. The story of ...
Imagine a thousand-year-old remedy bubbling in a battered cauldron, a mixture so pungent you can smell it before you see it. Now imagine scientists in modern labs, desperately searching for weapons against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, stumbling upon this ancient Viking potion. Sounds like the beginning of a fantasy novel, right? Yet, this unlikely intersection of history ...
Linnea H, BSc Sociology
Maria Faith Saligumba
