In todays deep dive into the world of Medieval Medical Care Historian Matt Lewis and Kevin Goodman - the time travelling ...

On the criteria that matter to medicine—not later industrial power— Africa led . Medicine does not exist in isolation. It depends on cities, sanitation, governance, and trade. Africa’s medical ...

In 1174, Alfonso VIII of Castile ceded the castle of Zorita de los Canes in Guadalajara to the order so it could protect the ...

In the Middle Ages, kings ruled by divine right and could not be removed, no matter their condition. As a result, entire ...

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From ancient coins to modern markets, gold has shaped money and value for centuries. Here's why, among all the elements, it has remained the world's store of value.

A medieval cataract surgery described in Chinese texts may have its roots in India, a Pune-based historian of science and medicine said during a recent talk in Delhi. Vijaya Jayant Deshpande, speaking ...

Between roughly 700 and 1500 CE, West Africa controlled one of the world’s most important commercial systems: the trans-Saharan trade. Empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the ...

A common myth during many plagues, but most specifically the bubonic plague, was that only the poor got sick and died. This classist ideology had people believing for centuries that the wealthy were ...

From left: the eccentric and visionary Jose Mariano de los Reyes Ocampo on his wedding day, November 26, 1924; the Pagoda ...

As we investigated the causes and cures of sickness within us, we began to change our views of the universe outside,” Susan ...

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