Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor ...

A page from a 15th-century medieval manuscript turns out to contain hidden text that is only visible under UV light. The discovery is due to the efforts of a team of undergraduate students at ...

When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the everyday soldiers ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the skeleton of a woman they say was probably a skilled artist who helped produce the richly illustrated religious texts of medieval Europe. The woman lived sometime ...

Faced with a range of serious patient reactions to the COVID-19 disease, doctors and nurses have sometimes struggled to find viable treatment options. But when we examine faith-based responses to the ...

A 14th-century astrolabe, one of the important instruments of medieval science (Photo by Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This is a review I’ve been sitting on for a while, because I’ve ...

The Light Ages. By Seb Falk. W.W. Norton; 320 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £20. IN THE 11TH century, nearly 500 years before Leonardo da Vinci drew a similar flying machine, a young monk called Eilmer ...

Medieval nun fakes death to escape convent and enjoy a life of carnal lust. Sounds like the basis for a juicy novel, but this really happened during the 14th century in England. Archivist and ...