On the criteria that matter to medicine—not later industrial power— Africa led . Medicine does not exist in isolation. It depends on cities, sanitation, governance, and trade. Africa’s medical ...

New research transforms our understanding of the Dark Ages…It turns out the Dark Ages weren’t all that dark! According to new research, medieval medicine was way more sophisticated than previously ...

The Menga dolmen in Antequera, Spain, is a Neolithic monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monument, built in the fourth millennium BCE, has seen continued use for burials and rituals ...

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance of the Black Plague across Europe in the 14th century, in a pandemic that killed tens of millions of people. New ...

For centuries, the prevailing explanation of how the Black Death entered medieval Europe was a simple narrative of biological warfare. During a siege of Caffa, a Genoa-controlled port city on the ...

Popular culture often paints Medieval Western Europe as a dark, backward time of ignorance, but is that accurate? This video challenges common myths, comparing European and Islamic civilizations ...

The Acupuncture Center of Acadiana has been a quiet and steady presence in Lafayette’s healing community since 1997. Its founder, John Hebert, is a licensed and board-certified practitioner of ...

Installation view of Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages at The Met Cloisters showing a sculpture of Saint Sebastian (Northern Europe, late 15th century) (all photos Emma ...

Sciences and Art of Medicine Integrated (SAMI) is a small group, patient-based curriculum that occurs during the clerkship year. Students work together to clinically reason through an undifferentiated ...

It’s no surprise that the history of medicine had a rocky and somewhat gruesome journey before reaching its current, modern state. From the earliest meddling in surgery in Classical Antiquity to the ...