The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be used in body armor. Chemists have invented a new material that could be the future of body armor — chainmail.

The Dafhni Monastery in Athens, Greece, a Byzantine masterpiece, is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Credit: Sp!ros, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia The Daphni Monastery on the outskirts of Athens ...

In light of a number of academics and museum professionals questioning Iona as the origin of the Book of Kells, a medieval monastery in Scotland’s Tarbat peninsula is gaining researchers attention as ...

Stunning medieval wall paintings inside France’s Angers Cathedral remained hidden for centuries. But now, for the first time, conservators from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute ...

There could be hundreds more palimpsests yet to be discovered, an invisible library that may hold as-yet-unknown biblical texts, or more manuscripts that illuminate medieval monastic life in this ...

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Book production in a Medieval monastic environment. Sadly, no contemporary image survives of Geoffrey of Monmouth. For centuries, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s medieval best-seller, the Historia Regum ...