Underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University have recovered four exceptionally well-preserved medieval spears from Lake Lednica in western Poland, including one ornately decorated ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

Where do modern social institutions — like universities, legal systems, and capitalist economies — come from? The genesis of many institutions and concepts can be traced back to the medieval and early ...

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Each May, some 3,000 people descend on Kalamazoo, Mich., for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which brings together academics and enthusiasts for four days of scholarly panels, ...

The Tumblr sounds a bit like a college course: People of Color in European Art History. And its goal is pretty ambitious. The blog's author, Malisha Dewalt, says that her goal is to challenge the ...

Every age has a tendency to look back at older generations and judge the customs, beliefs and traditions of the time. However, it is fair to say that there are few periods in history that we regard as ...

Islanders will be treated to an annual summer fete in a celebration of Castle Cornet's medieval history on Sunday. The Fete d'Etai, which is Guernesiais for "summer festival", takes place between ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

On April 8, Jewish families and their friends celebrated the first night of the week of Passover, with the most convivial gathering of the year: the Seder meal. The Seder celebrates the memory of ...