A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill? That’s the premise of an exhibit at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum that looks at four toxic pigments used for millennia and ...

Digging up Belgium’s DNA: World’s largest study on medieval cemetery Skeletons, black death and migration: the discovery of thousands of skeletons in Sint Truiden has uncovered centuries of Belgian ...

Now, you can crap on their efforts by slapping together rad illuminated pages in seconds in a video game editor. That game is ...

Not far from one of Milan’s last remaining medieval gates is a tiny shop door, sandwiched between shuttered storefronts.

Medieval Skeleton Reveals What Life Was Like With a Disability in the Middle Ages Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man’s life in medieval ...

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

When the researchers applied those constraints to the medieval skeletons, they extrapolated that between 9 and 14 percent of pre-industrial Britons likely had cancer—an estimate a full ten times ...

State-of-the-art technology re-creates voice of medieval monarch Unlike the upper-class tones of his modern successors, the re-created king’s voice has a more common and earthy twang.

See How Modern Artists Obsessed With Death and Darkness Looked to Medieval Gothic Artworks for Inspiration A new exhibition in Helsinki spotlights the Gothic themes and influences that connected ...

The new show at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, explores the influence of Medieval and Renaissance art on Modern artists ...

The new show at Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, explores the influence of Medieval and Renaissance art on Modern artists ...