Heavy metal hardens battle
The French may have had a better chance at the Battle of Agincourt had they not been weighed down by heavy body armour, say researchers.
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News tagged with medieval times
How food waste helped us discover the existence of a Christian community in 12th century Islamic Iberia
In the 12th century, Cercadilla, a neighborhood outside Cordoba in southern Spain, was under Islamic control. At this time populations of Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities lived together in a region known as al-Andalus.
Archaeology
Jun 29, 2021
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Legacies of historical human activities in Medieval forest dynamics of the Italian peninsula
When historians and paleoecologists work directly together to study the past (what is called a consilience-driven approach) we are able to develop much more nuanced explanations for the role of people (or climate) as a cause ...
Archaeology
Jul 30, 2020
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New research reveals political changes wrought by the 'Black Death'
From 1347 to 1351, Europe was in the grip of a pandemic, later known as the "Black Death," that killed millions, leaving doctors struggling to understand its origins and cities struggling to bury the dead and isolate the ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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Ancient footprints on UK beach record demise of biodiversity hotspot
A team of archaeologists and geographers from The University of Manchester have discovered that hundreds of ancient animal and human footprints found on a beach in Merseyside record a major decline in large animal diversity ...
Ecology
Sep 26, 2022
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New archaeological evidence throws light on efforts to resist 'the living dead'
A new scientific study of medieval human bones, excavated from a deserted English village, suggests the corpses they came from were burnt and mutilated. Researchers from the University of Southampton and Historic England ...
Archaeology
Apr 3, 2017
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Piecing together Scotland's religious past with shards of glass
Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge.
Archaeology
Feb 27, 2023
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Recapturing Baroque organ sound
The warmth and beauty of old organ music can once again be heard in Europe's historic churches, thanks to high-tech efforts that can accurately reproduce this unique sound.
Engineering
Oct 15, 2012
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Study highlights 'unbridled globetrotting' of the strangles pathogen in horses
In the largest ever study of its kind into an equine pathogen, scientists in 18 countries used the latest DNA sequencing techniques to track the bacteria responsible for a disease called 'strangles' in horses around the world.
Veterinary medicine
Mar 9, 2021
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Non-inertial torques and the Euler equation
Classical mechanics is the framework for studying motion of objects under the influence of forces. Its domain of applicability is limited to the macroscopic world (i.e., not applicable in the atomic/subatomic world) and to ...
General Physics
Dec 21, 2022
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