The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and ...

A rare medieval box that once contained the heart of an abbot who died in 1291 has gone on display. The Heart Case of Roger ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

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

Volcanic activity may have exacerbated the spread of the Black Death through medieval Europe, according to a study published in Communications Earth & Environment.

Researchers have used cutting-edge forensic science to solve a medieval mystery that has perplexed scholars for more than a ...

The identification of the remains was based on a contemporary osteological analysis, but they were subsequently lost and only ...

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

Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts ...

Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 ...

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

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