Day trips offer a satisfying sweater-weather getaway for time- and budget-squeezed travelers. Here are five single-day ...

A thousand-year-old Gospel manuscript, believed to have been written by a community of women in medieval Germany, will be offered at Christie's London on December 10th as part of Valuable Books, ...

A few years ago, I began to lose faith in my normal trade, journalism, with its reliance on facts. Sophisticates argue ...

“One of the things that this exhibition does very importantly is to remind us of the vast range of places Jews have lived and made their homes and learned from the local cultures,” David Kraemer said.

A team of 11 specialists works on pieces such as finials, tracery and the weird figures called grotesques. A team of 11 specialists works on pieces such as finials, tracery and the weird figures ...

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Social media is overflowing with wellness hacks and tips. While some should be avoided at all costs, others may actually be rooted in medicinal practices dating back to the Dark Ages, new research ...

From peach pit salves to lizard shampoos, ancient remedies reveal that medieval folks were surprisingly savvy about wellness, and oddly in sync with today’s trends. Credit: Shutterstock Medieval ...

Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, ...

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine was discovered in an Irish lake in 1986. National Museum of Ireland In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental ...