A team of researchers led by Dr Sarah Fiddyment of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge have published results of their biomolecular analyses of one such ...

Learn about the preparation and use of parchment paper in medieval Europe. The last remaining master animal-skin parchment maker in the world demonstrates how paper was made in medieval Europe (and ...

Medieval English Birth Scroll. MS.632 (c. 1500), Wellcome Collection. The girdle contains prayers and invocations for safe delivery in childbirth. Biomolecular evidence supports its active use.

How did the Dead Sea Scrolls—documents written on parchment, papyrus and bronze— survive almost 2,000 years in caves near the Dead Sea? Researchers have been intrigued, in particular, by one document ...

Childbearing in medieval Europe was a highly perilous time with considerable risks for both mother and baby. Difficulties occurring during childbirth or through postpartum infection, uterine prolapse ...