TO KINETIC ENERGY IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CATAPULTS ARE A BATTLE WEAPON DATING BACK TO MEDIEVAL TIMES, AND NOW THAT SAME CONCEPT SHAPES OUR DAY TO DAY LIVES. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA ...

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To modern eyes, many medieval beliefs sound unbelievable — even absurd. Illness was blamed on sin, bad air, or demonic forces rather than bacteria. Bloodletting was prescribed as a cure for everything ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

King Arthur’s lasting renown is one for the books. But a statistical spotlight now shines on medieval European literature’s round table of lost and forgotten stories. An international team used a ...

Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts. By Katherine Kornei Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue: Bits of ...

What type of images comes to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...

An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural ...