A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

The walls are assessed as one of the most important surviving medieval city walls in Britain. They were built in the 13th ...

A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long face carving in a granite boulder. Although experts have analyzed the carving, ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The technology of creating stained glass has been changed by improved tools and increased scientific knowledge, but the technique is essentially the same as in medieval times. A full size drawing of ...

Pyramids! Vikings! Gladiators! Explore the Wonders of the Pre-Modern World! This interdisciplinary minor is focused on material, intellectual, sociopolitical, literary, and linguistic approaches to ...

Nestled in the heart of the ancient medieval kingdom of Arwystli, Llanidloes is the first town on the River Severn and serves ...

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of the first known Roman aqueduct ...