Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

Juraj Herz’s acclaimed dark comedy The Cremator proved too much for post-1968 censors, the film withdrawn from circulation in ...

When people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness. But the reality of the 1,000-year period from 500 to 1500 was much more complex.

The lamp-post was moved during repair work in Gordon Field, Market Rasen A lamp-post placed in the middle of a pavement is set to be moved after residents in a Lincolnshire town said it was difficult ...

MADURAI: A seven-member team from the Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology, led by Deputy Director Yathish Kumar, carried out a detailed three-hour inspection atop the Thiruparankundram hill on ...

Creative Assembly has announced Total War: Medieval 3, the next mainline game in its long-running strategy series. Unveiled at Creative Assembly’s 25th anniversary showcase, Total War: Medieval 3 is a ...

Christmas lamp posts are one of those classic decor pieces that have stood the test of time. Their warm glow reminds us of classic, cozy Christmases full of snow, evergreens, and caroling. Once used ...

The Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of study by scholars for more than a century. Researchers in Israel are ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For Douglas Wagner, opening Carw Gwyn was an exercise in Murphy’s Law. “It just seemed like everything I could run into, I did,” the first-time restaurant ...

A worker who was pulled from the rubble of a medieval tower that partly collapsed in Rome died on Tuesday, Italian media reported citing hospital sources. The man, a Romanian national, had remained ...

Italian emergency services were battling on Monday to rescue a Romanian worker trapped for hours under rubble following the partial collapse of a medieval tower in central Rome, near the Colosseum.