Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

Scientists analyzed artifacts from Tycho Brahe’s lab and found tungsten, an element unknown in his time, rewriting our ...

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

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

In medieval times, long before there were bathrooms in private homes, bathing was a social affair. Visitors to Dutch and German bathhouses in the late Middle Ages emerged from such spaces cleansed of ...