Across America, in front of crowds of thousands, men and women are dressing up as knights from the Middle Ages and fighting ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ‘political neomedievalism’ by the Kremlin.

The military buildup appears to have deterred cartels. Intelligence officials said that human traffickers were now charging ...

After a series of riots saw the gangs take control of prisons, rival factions have waged bitter warfare against each other, carrying out brutal medieval ... wearing replica military gear attacked ...

South African teenager Khosi Dlomo wants to encourage others to take up her little-known equestrian sport of tent pegging.

As a scholar of historical memory, I have observed that references to the Russian Middle Ages are part of the Kremlin’s broader politics of using the medieval ... or boiled men alive and burned ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists across ...