The remains of a medieval woman who produced sacred texts and was "plugged into a vast global communication network" that would have stretched to Afghanistan has been discovered in Germany. The ...

When people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a new phenomenon. Women, we are given to understand, emerged to gain a foothold in the office as a part of the ...

In popular imagination, scribes and manuscript illuminators of the Middle Ages were men: Monks hard at work in candlelit scriptoria, busy copying the world’s knowledge onto parchment pages. “It’s ...

In 1991, the remains of a woman were discovered on the early medieval foreshore of the Thames River. The skeletal remains were moved to the London Museum, where they were curated. However, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists recently identified what might be called the first evidence of "bluetooth." Traces ...

Tiny bits of blue pigment found in the teeth of a medieval skeleton reveal that more than 850 years ago, this seemingly ordinary woman was very likely involved in the production of lavishly ...