A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, led by Dr. Elena Fiorin and her colleagues investigated ...

Dental plaque from medieval skeletons reveals its widespread use as a toxic cure.

Maggot therapy might sound like a practice ripped straight from the medieval era — but for some doctors and patients, it’s ...

Without good dental care, teeth tend to suffer. An abundance of archaeological evidence has shown that poor oral health was common throughout history. And unsurprisingly, there have been many attempts ...

For women living in the Middle Ages, childbirth was one of the most dangerous experiences imaginable. With limited medical ...

An archaeological dig at the site of a 12th-century church in Scotland has unearthed more evidence that “advanced dental treatments” existed for hundreds of years prior to the formal establishment of ...

So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities. All this was true of covid-19. It was also true of the Black Death. As ...

The origins of medicine and its development during the Middle Ages, including in Belarus, were explored by Igor Marzalyuk, ...

Learn how researchers identified Scotland’s earliest known gold dental bridge, likely crafted by a jeweler before modern ...