For more than six centuries, a mysterious cloth known as the Shroud of Turin has stirred fascination, devotion, and heated ...

Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it isn't true, it makes a good story)—reflects a good deal of human history.

Applying this understanding of “Not in Heaven” can shed light on some other surprising applications. R. Yosef Karo in his ...

The Trump administration thinks that free speech is in retreat in Britain. What do we mean by freedom of speech, and is it in ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

The medieval masterpiece—embroidered on a 230-foot piece of linen—depicts a royal betrayal that changed history.

Historically, Europe marked a definitive break from the Middle Ages during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. In these periods, history as we know it emerged, dividing human civilization into ...

A new study has uncovered the oldest written rejection of the Shroud of Turin, a religious relic purported to have been the ...

In contemporary terms, internationalization has been understood both as a means of promoting mutual understanding, tolerance, ...

For some, the cloth serves as visual proof of Jesus’ resurrection; for others, it is merely a medieval relic made by an artist in ... Oresme was an interesting figure, not only for his merit as a ...

Museums are usually places that can bore people. But not all of them, here are some of the most quirky museums in the world ...

In both Jewish and Chinese traditions, the concept of polarity—Heaven and Earth, masculine and feminine, giver and ...