Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually ...

Their finding is set to shine new light into life in the 15th-century BC. The scientists unearthed an Akkadian cuneiform tablet at the ancient archaeological site of Aççana Höyük, which dates ...

Video of the weapon hurling a fireball emerged Thursday ... which largely disappeared from the battlefield in the 15th century — fires a flaming projectile over a fortified wall.

The observatory and the discoveries made there sprang from the passion of a single man, the 15th-century Timurid prince, Ulugh Beg. While many rulers have sought to increase the prestige of their ...

Killer rabbits might even have been a common trope among traveling minstrels, according to one scholar's discovery of a written record of a live performance preserved in a 15th-century manuscript ...

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a medieval synagogue in Israel. Why it was deposited there, however, is a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site ...