A man who found a hoard of 11th Century coins just months into his archaeology career said the discovery was made all the more sweet by being unearthed near his home town. Andrew Pegg, 49 ...

Among the finds were also three bronze coins, a chain, and metal fragments. The metal objects were subject to elemental analysis by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and lead isotope analysis. The ...

Amateur metal detectorists in Scotland have discovered a 600-year-old treasure trove of gold and silver coins they're calling "the find of a lifetime." Initially, the detectorists unearthed a ...

Vendredi 4 avril, Guillaume Sire vient présenter son roman Les Grandes Patries étranges. Dans cette fresque baroque qui nous fait traverser le XX e siècle, Guillaume Sire conte avec ...

Furious residents in a quiet Yorkshire Dales village have labelled a 15th century church as an 'abomination' which can be seen for miles. Askrigg is best known as the quintessential rural idyll of ...

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...

Grosso modo, sur les 500 millions de recettes annuelles, les dépenses atteignent 630 millions de livres tournois. Les ministres se succèdent, Necker, Calonne, sans pouvoir imposer des ...

l’équivalent de 96 075 000 livres tournois (ancienne monnaie française), soit 64 050 000 livres de cire, s’ils s’éclairaient par les rayons du soleil en arrêtant les bougies. Le changeme ...

A village is furious with its vicar for having a 15th-century church tower rendered in white, making it "an abomination" which can be seen for miles. Askrigg, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales ...

SURGEON AND SCHOLAR Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu was a 15th-century surgeon who worked at the hospital in Amasya (in modern-day Turkey). In 1466 he presented the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II with the ...