Archaeologists in Switzerland recently made an unusual discovery while excavating the land around a medieval castle near the German border. The crews unearthed a well-preserved gauntlet that experts ...

Historians have traced myths about the Black Death’s rapid journey across Asia to one 14th-century poem by Ibn al-Wardi. His ...

Over 1,500 medieval silver coins discovered in Glottertal treasure hoard reveal secrets of trade and economic power in the ...

Archaeologists working in Odesa, the Black Sea port city in southern Ukraine, have announced a pair of discoveries that illustrate the city’s long and international history. First came news that ...

Alex Clauson, pictured July 25, and Barry Ruderman, who buy and sell antique maps in La Jolla, California, found a rare map "a 14th-century Rex Tholomeus" Portolan Chart" at an estate sale for Gordon ...

View post: U.S. Increases Travel Warning After Unrest, 'Targeting' of Same Sex Travelers The remarkable find was made during what was expected to be a normal construction job at the site of a future ...

In the chill of a 12th-century English church, a 30-something with a liquid baritone and a Harry Potter-ish gaze sang a medieval lament. We gathered tentatively around him, 23 near-strangers who had ...

One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought you’d ...

A newly-acquired 14th-century machzor (prayer book for the Jewish holidays) includes previously unknown liturgical poems for the festival of Yom Kippur, the National Library of Israel announced on ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland recently made an unusual discovery while excavating the land around a medieval castle near the German border. The crews unearthed a well-preserved gauntlet that experts ...