History
The Morgan Just Appointed a New Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
One of the world’s most significant collections of illuminated manuscripts — spanning more than a…
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Viking-Age Woman Buried With Her Dog Named Norway’s Most Intriguing 2025 Find
More than a thousand years ago, a woman was laid to rest inside a wooden boat on a Norwegian island…
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The Taifa of Albarracín Had a Remarkable Story — This Book Barely Tells It
A new book promises to shed light on one of medieval Spain’s most obscure forgotten…
History
Caterina Sforza’s Renaissance Recipes Claimed to Restore Virginity
Five centuries before the internet was flooded with dubious wellness claims, a Renaissance noblewoman was…
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AI Models Ran a Nuclear War for 329 Turns and Kept Escalating
Across 329 turns of simulated crisis and roughly 780,000 words of structured reasoning, three of…
History
Hundreds of Medieval Artefacts Go to Auction and Anyone Can Bid
A gilt copper cross from 13th-century France. A signed suit of iron plate armour forged…
History
Video Games Have Changed How We Picture the Middle Ages in 10 Ways
For millions of people around the world, the first encounter with the Middle Ages doesn’t…
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Harvesting Robots Are Here But Not Quite Ready to Replace Field Workers
What if the next person to pick your apples was never a person at all?…
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A Nasal Spray Just Protected Mice From Almost Every Respiratory Threat
What if a single shot — or in this case, a single sniff — could…
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How Pagan Beliefs Quietly Outlasted Medieval Europe’s Last Conversions
For centuries, millions of people across northern and eastern Europe quietly kept their old beliefs…
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Rome’s underground tunnels reveal a 2,000-year-old secret that changes everything we knew
Carmela Rodriguez never imagined that a single phone call would change her understanding of history…