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Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

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Every living person of European descent shares ancestors from around the year 900, illustrating human genealogy collapse. Woman puts husband to death 3 months after marriage, masks it as 'hit and run' ...

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OpenAI spends more on AI than the whole EU. Europe is lagging in the innovation race — here’s why, and how it plans to catch up.

Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.