The Mappa Mundi, completed by monk Fra Mauro in 1459, is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Video by Anna ...

In the process, they have revealed the most complete picture ever formed of what life was like in a late medieval Japanese samurai city. “Ichijodani is the only site where a wide range of ...

The arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century forced the Japanese ... the medieval period. The breakdown in central authority may have reduced the power of political authorities to tax and ...

The Rungholt Project team is using what archeologist Bente Majchczack calls a 'cart with the magnetic probes' to map a long-buried medieval city. (Dirk Bienen-Scholt) So far, the team has mapped ...