Studies on diseases and medical practices in ancient civilizations through archaeology.
A team of neonatologists and obstetricians has proposed a new explanation for the disappearance of Neanderthals. In a study published ...
A study in Accounting History examines how Londoners relied on weekly death totals during the Great Plague of 1665 and ...
Medieval cemeteries in Denmark show how social rank shaped burial choices. Plots near church walls or inside church buildings cost ...
An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal ...
Chemical analysis of residue inside a small Roman glass vial has produced the first direct physical evidence that human feces ...
A new study examines how divine sanctuaries fit into medical practice in ancient Mesopotamia. Troels Arbøll analyzed cuneiform prescriptions from ...
Scientists recovered the oldest known genome of Treponema pallidum from human remains dated to about 5,500 years ago in the ...
Shadrach Byfield, a British soldier in the War of 1812, lived a life shaped by injury, work, and public recognition. ...
For decades, human betaherpesviruses 6A and 6B were thought to be relatively recent scientific discoveries, having only been identified in ...
The plague moved through Europe during the medieval period with devastating speed, causing millions of deaths as fleas spread Yersinia ...
