Sink your teeth into this one. Scientists have recreated the face of a 16th-century woman with a brick jammed into her mouth, an object apparently wedged there to stop her from eating the dead — as ...

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From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and granted more power than their counterparts back home. In a man's worldOne of ...

In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and just how they were achieved. (Recipes included.) By Marisa Meltzer Marisa Meltzer is ...

A woman in Norfolk, England, has at last decided to return a 16th-century painting that was stolen more than 50 years ago. The Madonna and Child painting disappeared from Italy’s Civic Museum of ...

Susan Broomhall receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Carolyn James receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of ...