Nine years ago – in response to an urgent need to provide proper and specialized facilities to protect and access Ontario’s archaeological heritage – the federal and provincial governments along with Western University invested in an 8,000-square foot research and...
A team of academic researchers from MacEwan University in Edmonton, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Western University in London, University of Saskatchewan, Trent University in Peterborough, University of Waterloo and Canadian Light Source at the University of...
Art curators will be able to recover images on daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography that used silver plates, after a team of scientists led by Western University learned how to use light to see through degradation that has occurred over time. Research...
A tiny Egyptian mummy long believed to be that of a hawk is actually a rare example of a near-to-term, severely malformed fetus, says an examination led by mummy expert Andrew Nelson of Western University. Detailed micro-CT scans have virtually unwrapped the mummy to...
A Western University bio-archaeologist and a Western-trained forensic sculptor have laid to rest a pernicious 700-year-old rumour: Scottish warrior-king Robert the Bruce did not have leprosy. The suggestion their national hero may have had the disfiguring, contagious...
