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

NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but ...

The claim: Earth has cooled 4 degrees Celsius since 'medieval times' and warmed only 0.7 degrees Celsius since 1850 A June 22 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an edited excerpt from ...

He said that, using these methods, they had made a number of extremely significant finds and are regularly turning up new evidence about how ailments were treated during medieval times ... assisting ...

Some early hand-cranked saws driven by chains were invented in the 18th century for the "symphysiotomy and excision of diseased bone respectively." In some cases, these saws were used to break ...

Medieval women made their flesh into pure meaning. In childbirth, they wrapped their bellies in silk and paper girdles inscribed with prayers and instructions: Count the drops of Christ’s blood ...

NEW YORK — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher White women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but ...

This is Camlann Medieval Village, where the year is perpetually ... Ivy Ceballo is a Seattle Times staff photographer: iceballo@seattletimes.com.

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 ...