Scientists have tracked down the source of high levels of heavy metal pollution at a site in southern France: medieval metallurgical workshops. Sandrine Baron, Jean Carignan, and Alain Ploquin of the ...

A construction project in southwestern Germany has unexpectedly revealed one of the most significant medieval coin hoards in ...

A MINING manual dating back 450 years is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get ...

The Lylye of Medicynes is a 15th-century manuscript residing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. It is a Middle English translation of an earlier Latin treatise on disease, containing case ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have managed to produce nanoscale 3D images of zwischgold, a material consisting of ultra-thin gold foil supported by a silver base layer, which was ...

A team of researchers just published a paper in Science Advances where they reveal that lapis lazuli residues found in the mouth of a woman buried at a 12th-century German monastery suggest that she ...

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The International Center of Medieval Art is sponsoring a virtual lunchtime session at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) in which there will be a live viewing of selected ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to ...

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