A "pilgrim badge" from the Middle Ages featuring the design of a basilisk — a fearsome mythological creature akin to a dragon — has been discovered in southeast Poland. Such finds are rare and can ...

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TERRADILLOS DE LOS TEMPLARIOS, SpainTERRADILLOS DE LOS TEMPLARIOS, Spain — Amid the vast grain fields of Spain, a medieval church stands guard over the handful of adobe homes where some 50 people live ...

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An illustration from a late 12th-century manuscript showing St. Cuthbert, a medieval English saint, in a boat at sea. The manuscript is preserved in the British Library. In the early Middle Ages, ...

Such badges were common among Christian pilgrims in the Middle Ages, but it's not clear what the basilisk represents. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

(CNN) — Travelers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and others were warned by preachers such as 13th-century Jacques de Vitry ...

Travelers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and ...