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A UMKC researcher is embarking on a project to preserve the ancient medieval texts of nuns for future preservation. She tells ...

Although cleanliness in the Middle Ages was primitive compared to what modern people enjoy, it doesn't mean medieval hygiene ...

THE British are obsessed with the weather. So obsessed that every news bulletin finishes with not one but two weather forecasts, exactly the ...

These torture devices from the Middle Ages will make you glad you live in modern times. Picture a dark, dank cell. The dripping of water. The skittering of rats. And the tortured moans of the people ...

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The Spanish Donkey, also called the “chevalet” or simply the “wooden horse,” was one of the cruelest of the medieval torture devices ... to their ankles to slowly weigh them down. Other times, the ...

People gathering wild rice from Minnesota’s third-largest lake have stumbled across human skeletal remains that are believed ...

Efforts are underway to preserve centuries-old human remains that were discovered last weekend on the shore of Leech Lake, authorities in Cass County said. According to the Cass County Sheriff’s ...

Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood. By The New York Times Books Staff New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the ...