New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of medieval stories in ...
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2022
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What was the Medieval warm period? What caused it, and did carbon dioxide play a role?
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2021
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Childbearing in medieval Europe was a highly perilous time with considerable risks for both mother and baby.
Archaeology
Mar 9, 2021
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Early Medieval Europe is frequently viewed as a time of cultural stagnation, often given the misnomer of the 'Dark Ages'. However, analysis has revealed new ideas could spread rapidly as communities were interconnected, creating ...
Archaeology
Jan 21, 2021
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Mass burials are common remnants of the many plague outbreaks that ravaged Medieval Europe. A number of these graveyards are well documented in historical sources, but the locations of most, and the victims they contain, ...
Archaeology
Jun 11, 2020
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A new study has found ground-breaking evidence from an ice core in the Swiss-Italian Alps that proves the 7th century switch from gold to silver currencies in western Europe actually occurred a quarter of a century earlier ...
Archaeology
Nov 16, 2018
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The newcomers who arrived in the little farming villages of medieval Germany would have stood out: They had dark hair and tawny skin, spoke a different language and had remarkably tall heads.
Archaeology
Mar 12, 2018
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Why was there a sudden drop in the incidence of leprosy at the end of the Middle Ages? To answer this question, biologists and archeologists reconstructed the genomes of medieval strains of the pathogen responsible for the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 13, 2013
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Richard III may have undergone painful medical treatments for his spinal curvature, according to research from a University of Leicester researcher.
Archaeology
Apr 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- Surveys of the carnage of the American financial crisis that began in 2008 have revealed the potent allure of personal gain above all else.
Other
Aug 6, 2012
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