The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

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An auction of jewelry, silver, and objets d'art at London auctioneer Noonans will be led by a medieval ring worn by an ...

You might think you don’t need a hearing aid, and you might be right. But in general, hearing loss eventually comes to all of ...

From the 12th to the 17th century, physicians across Europe prescribed ... alongside other human-derived medicines such as powdered skull (cranium humanum) and distilled human fat (axungia hominis).

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from Maastricht, the Netherlands Travelers know Maastricht, tucked along the southern border of the Netherlands, for its cobbled streets, stately 17th-century townhouses ...

But a set of small black fragments found inside the skull of a man who died in the ... over 4,400 have been discovered since the mid-17th century. But these samples tend to have been preserved ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome ...

and one of two surviving 17th-century Jolly Roger flags (that familiar black flag featuring a skull and crossbones). At the center of the museum, travelers can climb aboard a replica pirate ship ...