Explore Bruges, Belgium during a peaceful evening walk through its vast medieval old town. Known as one of the world’s ...

A chance discovery on Holy Island reveals how a 350-million-year-old marine fossil became part of medieval legend.

Reading before bed is a well-known and time-honored way to wind down before bed. Avoiding the glare of the smartphone screen is especially important for drifting off to sleep well, so curling up under ...

A medieval pendant unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast in Essex, UK, has uncovered an unexpected connection to ancient Rome, archaeologists and official documents have revealed, providing a ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

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Costume dramas would have us believe that women in the Middle Ages became mothers at a much younger age than they do today. University lecturer Krista Milne wants to refute this image with the help of ...

New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and farms. Historian Dr. Krisztina Ilko uncovers how the Augustinian order built ...

During routine excavations before the construction of wind turbines, archeologists in Saxony-Anhalt stumbled on a medieval tunnel tucked inside a 6,000-year-old ditch from the Baalberg culture. This ...

Detailed studies of the stellar populations of intermediate-redshift galaxies can shed light onto the processes responsible for the significant evolution of the massive galaxy population since z < 1.

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A fast-aging fish is giving scientists a rare, accelerated look at how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug may slow that process down. Researchers found that SGLT2 inhibitors, widely used to treat ...