Childbirth isn't for the faint-hearted at the best of times, let alone in the medieval period. What was a birthing room like ...

In this video, we explore what it took to survive pregnancy in the Middle Ages – a time when medicine was primitive, risks were high, and childbirth was a life-or-death event. From strange folk ...

Texts like Job 36:32 (God “fills his hands with lightning”) and Genesis 9:11 (God’s promise not to flood the Earth again) were taken to mean that human efforts to prevent disasters—like lightning rods ...

People had the chance to leave the modern world behind and take a step back in time to the medieval times. There was sword fighting, jesters, meeting the queen and vendors with handmade period items.

She chose the latter. In 2020, Fujita gave birth to a son, becoming one of the first public figures in Korea to openly challenge social norms around nonmarital childbirth. Her decision once seemed ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.

British artist Thomas J Price probably could have counted on some controversy when he erected a sculpture of a Black woman in New York’s Times Square. Unveiled on April 29, the 12-foot-high ...