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National Catholic Register22 小时Opinion
How the Shroud of Turin Still Puzzles the Scientific Age
In an age obsessed with scanning, measuring and proving, the Shroud invites modern minds to reconsider the Resurrection — and ...
A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...
A Woman Went for a Casual Walk—and Accidentally Discovered a One-in-a-Million Treasure
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10 天
Some 'Hairy' Medieval Books Were Covered in Sealskin, and Researchers Don't Know Exactly Why
In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a protective outer layer made from the hairy hides of local land ...
Archaeologists Found 317 Skeletons Buried Under a Department Store
Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.
The Independent24 天
Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility
The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar ...
Analysis of medieval books reveals many were bound with sealskin
An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...
Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...