The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

These days, it’s easy to take cleanliness for granted — we can shower whenever we please and choose from an endless array of ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and ...

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Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend ...

Illumination of Saint James the Apostle in the Salamanca copy of the _Liber Sancti Jacobi_ from the Codex Calixtinus. Spanish Ministry of Culture Situated at the end of the Camino de Santiago ...

Deforestation and persecution, especially by Victorian gamekeepers, eradicated wildcats from England, Wales and much of ...

Veronika Vikova from Mareva Conservation said many people had not known medieval paint remained on the tombs. One of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered part of a cemetery, including 1,000-year-old human skeletons, near the remains of a fortified ...

The sword measures 31 inches in length and features an "intriguing" cross symbol on the wedge, per experts Stołeczny Konserwator Zabytków/Facebook A fisherman recently reeled in a 700-year-old ...