In northern Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a rare hoard of medieval silver coins associated with the era of the ...

Researchers have used cutting-edge forensic science to solve a medieval mystery that has perplexed scholars for more than a ...

The Middle Ages were shaped not just by kings and armies, but by raw forces of nature that struck without warning. Entire cities collapsed into fire during earthquakes, mountains plunged into lakes, ...

Montreal’s Old Port welcomes a striking new addition to its cultural landscape.

The identification of the remains was based on a contemporary osteological analysis, but they were subsequently lost and only ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts ...

Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but they have all been distant ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Ceramic vessels originating in the Islamic world once adorned the facades of churches and other Christian monuments, while Christian symbols such as the cross embellished columns, slabs, and other ...