You could spend months in Barcelona without running out of new things to experience, but if you’re in need of a change of ...

The infant mortality rate refers to the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1,000 live births.

In 1991, the remains of a woman were discovered on the early medieval foreshore of the Thames River. The skeletal remains ...

But the most famous of these birch bark writings come from a single prolific artist who lived there in the 13th century. He drew epic battle scenes and mythical creatures and even rather abstract ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy ...

In early medieval Italy, people dug canals and drained wetlands not just to farm new land, but also to manage flooding and ...

Various dynasties worked on the 2,485-mile-long (4,000-km) MWS, such as the Jin dynasty (1115 to 1234 CE), whose empire ...

The former Saxon owner of the pendant would be sad to hear that one arm of the cross has broken in the centuries since it was ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

Alchemy in the Middle Ages was more than just the pursuit of gold – it was a blend of science, mysticism, and philosophy that captured the imagination of scholars across Europe.