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

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

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

The 1,100-year-old burials of three elite warriors — two of whom were possibly father and son — have been discovered in ...

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

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

Violet herself is a hollow shell with no motivations outside of doing what others tell her to do, as well as being ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

An ancient Celtic coin discovered in a field in northeast England could fetch over $5,000. A metal detectorist in Lelley, ...

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 few days ago, I was listening to an interview of a Methodist pastor on NPR.  She said there were members of her congregation who no longer called themselves Christians. […] ...