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

We all have seen Radha along with shree Krishna in so many temples and know that they are the embodiment of love and the purest form of love We know that they are divine lovers but many of us do not k ...

Articles What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both ...

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 ...

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 ...

Westeros is a brutal and violent place, and more than once Game of Thrones went too far to make sure fans knew it.

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.

A new biography of Witkacy offers an opportunity to discuss the turbulent life of this artist – a man of his time and a lover ...

One striking manuscript contains illustrations of ‘Vein Man’ and ‘Zodiac Man’, illuminating how medicine and astrology were entwined in medieval times. How our ancestors ... fertility and pregnancy, ...

A particularly striking manuscript contains illustrations of ‘Vein Man’ and ‘Zodiac Man’, illuminating how medicine and astrology were entwined in medieval times ... fertility and pregnancy, ...

Every two hours. That's how often a woman dies during childbirth in Afghanistan. The staggering maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. And under the repressive rule of the ...

While it is often portrayed as one of the cruellest and most horrifying practices imaginable, my recent research shows that humans ingested other humans’ body parts in Western Europe, both in ...