Ancient architecture redesigned by cold: climate change has influenced the course of civilizations and daily life as well
Teenage diaries from Stalin’s Russia reveal boys’ struggles with love, famine and Soviet pressure to achieve; the study has been published in the journal Slavic Review
The Song of Wade, by Geoffrey Chaucer: decoding a lost English legend, solving a mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme
The Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine (CEMLM) shows that medieval medicine was smarter than you think – and weirdly similar to TikTok trends
The world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring was most likely not commissioned by Vermeer’s male patron, but by a woman, the man’s wife
Uffizi Galleries: the Vasari Corridor welcomes more than fifty Roman busts, that now adorn the section above the Ponte Vecchio
Light from Italy: From Fattori to Morandi – Masterpieces in dialogue from the Uffizi Galleries and the Latvian National Museum of Art, the exhibition
Research project at University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt uncovers more Nazi plunder than expected
Hymn to Babylon discovered, the previously unknown hymn of praise comes from the period around 1000 BCE; it was copied by children at school
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
