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Medieval Female Scribes Were Far More Common Than Previously Thought. At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by Women
The vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...
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Scientists Probed a Medieval Alchemist’s Artifacts—and Found an Element That Changes History
Researchers discovered an interesting mix of elements from his alchemist laboratory that included tungsten, which wasn’t yet known to science at the time. The find could spell out why Brahe’s ...
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Science fiction was around in medieval times – here’s what it looked like
The influence of the genre we call “fantasy”, which often looks back to the medieval past in order to escape a techno-scientific future, means that the Middle Ages have rarely been associated with ...
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Are these YOUR ancestors? Faces of medieval Scots digitally reconstructed after their skulls were unearthed in a cemetery
Forensic scientists used chemical analysis and cutting-edge computer programmes to rebuild a handful of the faces of the medieval Scots They include a teenager who could have been a patient at a ...
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A Peek Inside a Medieval Medicine Cabinet
For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts, but their contents--the conditions that were described, the prescriptions that were advised--have ...
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Medieval, modern looters destroy most mummies in Russia's Yamal — scientist
Scientists have found in the Zeleiy Yar medieval burial 30 burials and more than 15 mummies. During the 2016 expedition only, archeologists opened nine burials, but all of them turned out to have ...