Advances in painting in early modern Europe were the product not just of artistic innovation but of changes in mining and manufacturing technology.

In ancient Mesopotamia, many medical disorders were attributed to ghosts, including mental problems faced by men who had spent years at war.

Never stop looking at the skies in wonder.

Taking a ship from Europe to the Americas in the early 1500s meant entering a world of cutting-edge applied technology and the mixing of social classes.

In the late thirteenth century, followers of the Italian abbess Clare of Montefalco dissected her heart in search of a crucifix.

When uroscopy became trendy, it caused a minor scandal within the early medical profession.

The newly hot alternative to meat has a long history.

Why did the Puritans embrace a medical treatment that looked suspiciously like black magic?