The sculpture is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that still feature on churches around Germany and elsewhere in Europe. 'Judensau' sculpture on the capital of a ...

Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...

A myth persists that during the Middle Ages, the unenlightened believed ... wooden reproduction of the first spectacles produced in Germany in 1350. In fact, medieval people set the stage ...

Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation Construction on a pipeline in Germany led archaeologists to a rare find: a prosthetic hand from the Middle Ages. Officials said a grave from ...

L. Klein made the astonishing statement that the various narcotics and opiates "devised" by modern medical scientists for the destruction of pain were commonly used during the Middle Ages ...

Often at odds in the modern mind, the boundaries between these elements of everyday life were far more ambiguous during the Middle Ages ... Saint Magnus in Füssen, Germany.

15th century German woodcut showing an apothecary's shop. Apothecaries were not doctors but they did sell herbs and medicines. In the Middle Ages, visiting a doctor would have been very expensive ...

After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in monasteries and on Europe’s fringes: Christian Byzantium, Moorish ...