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About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was. But when ...

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Traces of a rare and expensive blue pigment, called ultramarine, have been detected in the teeth of a woman who died in Germany nearly 1,000 years ago. The discovery suggests women played a more ...

Dental calculus on the lower jaw a medieval woman entrapped lapis lazuli pigment. Christina Warinner In 2011, a team of scientists decided to study the teeth of a medieval woman who had been buried in ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the skeleton of a woman they say was probably a skilled artist who helped produce the richly illustrated religious texts of medieval Europe. The woman lived sometime ...

Tiny bits of blue pigment found in the teeth of a medieval skeleton reveal that more than 850 years ago, this seemingly ordinary woman was very likely involved in the production of lavishly ...

Throughout the European medieval period books were precious goods. To make the pages various pieces of animal skin were needed. The paints and inks were extremely costly and before the invention of ...