Explore the often misunderstood hygiene practices of the Middle Ages. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone was ...

A fire breaks out at a laboratory in Siberia where secretive research into infectious diseases is taking place. A technician, racked with guilt over the accident, disappears into the tundra and ...

Popular culture often portrays the Middle Ages as an era of constant filth, but the reality was more nuanced. Medieval towns ...

How far would you go to feel beautiful? If you were a woman in the Middle Ages, you might be will to douse yourself in hedgehog oil.

A nearly intact medieval wax notebook found in Germany still bears readable Latin notes, offering a rare glimpse into the ...

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The journalist Evan Gershkovich details the delicate rapport he developed with his cellmate at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison.

More than 40,000 Indiana residents have embarked on the road to recovery after August's storms but for many the process will take months or longer.

Sheeppox affected European sheep herds for centuries in the medieval period – but they weren’t the oldest viral genomes we ...

Purging was one of the hangover cures prescribed in the Middle Ages. Tacuinum Sanitatis manuscript Anyone who has ever woken up with a hangover will recognise its physical and psychological effects: ...

What is it that makes books so magical? The Times columnist somehow forgets to tell us in this lofty polemic While other kids watched cartoons, Times columnist James Marriott would spend his school ...