Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy ...

Nothing in cities and spaces is random. Bathroom lines, street names, and the maps we use every day also tell a story of ...

Travel in the Middle Ages was no easy feat, but people still found ways to get around. In this video, we explore four key modes of transportation from medieval times – from horseback and carts to ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

Mediæval Lore: an Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal and Plant Folk-Lore and Myth of the Middle Ages. Being Classified Gleanings from the Encyclopædia of Bartholomew Anglicus on the ...

Findings suggest that pre-Portuguese activity has likely taken place on various occasions stretching from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The possibility of knowledge transfer concerning the islands’ ...

So we’ve discovered that people in the Middle Ages understood geography and made some great art. The misconception that Europeans knew very little about the world beyond their own villages can ...

In the Middle Ages, a very popular way of thinking about the social order ... The motivation becomes quite clear once you know what the local geography looks like. I went there and I walked around the ...

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have "mustaches." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In a recent archaeological find in Portugal, disturbing evidence about the fate of domestic cats during the Middle Ages has been discovered. This study, led by Eva Pires and published in the Journal ...

The seemingly fantastical world of the Middle Ages has held western popular culture in fascination since (at least) its nostalgic reimagining by Victorian antiquarians. Unfortunately, there is ...