This episode recreates a historical doctor’s kit—from a plague mask and bloodletting tools to herbs that later became real drugs—then challenges Bill Gates to sort proven treatments from pseudoscience ...

When bailing on friends, sometimes it pays to be creative. Here are 11 brilliant ways medieval people told someone they were canceling plans that you can totally steal.

The heart symbol has traipsed from ancient coins and medieval art to jewels and logos, evolving across space-time - without ...

Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection at London’s Wellcome Collection is a small but quietly powerful exhibition. Spanning five centuries, it explores how the experience of bringing life into the ...

"Ring Around the Rosie," or "Ring-a-Ring o' Rosie," as it's referenced in the U.K., has been part of the Mother Goose ...

Students in Joe Glynias' first-year seminar this semester are learning about the long history of ascetic practices in the medieval Middle ...

Women’s work may not have been glamorous, but it was vital to the workings of the pope’s court and surrounding city.

Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t. This was partly because they confronted two new ...

What makes the following universities remarkable is not just their age, but their continuity. Wars, revolutions, plagues and political upheavals reshaped them, yet they survived. Some helped define ...

Unlike a solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, people watching Tuesday morning’s lunar eclipse don’t have to worry about damaging their eyes. Binoculars will ...

Vayots Dzor is scaling via the €120.5M TRIP program. Explore the 2026 Jermuk Airport launch and new FDI opportunities in ...