Last summer, Linda Åsheim found a ring so beautiful it looks like it could have been made yesterday. But Åsheim is an ...

This video examines medieval hospitals and the realities of healthcare before modern medicine. Hospitals were places of ...

There are surprisingly few historical sources concerning the Tapestry's origins and purpose, but new research has offered new ...

Pregnancy in the Middle Ages was extremely dangerous. There were no sterile conditions or modern medical knowledge.

A promising Alzheimer's breakthrough as an experimental drug completely reverses mental decline in mice with advanced disease ...

According to a Science in Poland report, traces of four unusual huts dated to the eleventh or twelfth century have been uncovered on an island in the Baltic Sea near the coast of Poland. Researchers ...

More than six centuries later, scientists say that the skeletons hold vital clues about the history of tsunamis.

Scholastic arguments, sacred texts and disciplined reasoning meet in books that reveal how medieval thinkers shaped belief, ...

Richard Fishacre used his knowledge of light and colour to argue against ‘fifth element’ theories of the day About 800 years ago, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at the University of Oxford, ...

Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding questions about its arrival, persistence and ...

A time of innovation, philosophy, and legendary works of art: the realities of the medieval period (500 to 1500 C.E.) in Europe may surprise you. Many know the years before the Renaissance and ...