First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

That includes during our hunter-gatherer days, which account for some 95% of human evolutionary history. The idea of "man the ...

Women scribes of the medieval period lived under much harsher ... at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. They explained that the woman was a scribe ...

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility - It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind ...

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Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

Mighty warhorses, as richly adorned and armoured as their knightly riders, are an immediately recognisable icon of the ...

A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from Armageddon suggests. In the Book of Revelation, Armageddon is where the apocalyptic final clash between ...