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This Bible picture book from Padua, made c. 1400, is quite simply stunning http://t.co/s9p6VBK2L9

Fragments of 700-year-old DNA from the bug responsible for the Black Death have been pulled from the teeth of four plague victims buried in east London.

Danielle Trynoski takes a look at two new exhibitions at the Getty Centre - Eat, Drink, and Be Merry and The Edible Monument - with curators Christine Sciacca and Marcia Reed

Christ’s apostles visit the Virgin upon her deathbed. Saint Peter, wearing white robes and the papal tiara, performs funerary rites, reciting prayers and sprinkling holy water on the Virgin’s body.

From Merit Ptah—Chief Physician of ancient Egypt—to 1st-century BC alchemist Mary the Jewess, the Science Chicks from History Tumblr is dedicated to introducing you to all the science-y ladies you…

Charivari was a European and North American folk custom designed to shame a member of the community, in which a mock parade was staged through the settlement ac...

Bellifortis (Konrad Kyeser)

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