“This finding aligns with both modern soil science and the medieval ‘miasma theory,’ which held that diseases spread through ...
A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...
The book is Emendatio vitae —The Emending of Life—written in the 14th century by Richard Rolle, a Yorkshire hermit and mystic ...
Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...
The news is bleak, the nights are long. Yet somehow... the calendar is still stacked. January is when culture gets weird in ...
Last summer, Linda Åsheim found a ring so beautiful it looks like it could have been made yesterday. But Åsheim is an ...
Archaeologists in Tønsberg, Norway, found a gold medieval ring set with a blue stone that was meant to promote chastity and ...
“The Naibbe cipher is my attempt to find a way to encode something like Latin by hand as text that partially mimics the ...
The combination of filigree and granulation techniques arrived in Norway during the early Middle Ages from the Byzantine Empire, partly via Carolingian goldsmithing traditions. The Carolingian period, ...
The only surviving original version of one of late medieval England’s most popular works of literature reveals its secrets.
Scientists have found a lost Bible chapter 1500 years after it was first written. It was made possible using UV light.
A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...
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