The Middle Ages often lives in our imagination as a foggy era filled with armored knights, unwashed peasants, gloomy castles, and cruel torture devices.

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

Glass beads, rhinestones, sequins, medallions, and more embellish artworks exploring the relationship between past and ...

Daniel told Bored Panda that he was inspired to create the thread after seeing a segment in the TV show ‘Horrible Histories’ ...

Integrated Dermatology, the country’s largest independent dermatology provider, is pleased to announce the promotion of Nicholas Anguish to President. Anguish previously served as the company’s Chief ...

“No matter what legend you read, it seems the women always just ended up in a convent.” The men in our tour group at Germany’s Marksburg Castle nod politely as our guide Michaela talks about the ...

Panels on the octagonal font in the nave of St. Margaret’s church have medieval markings thought to bring luck or protect from evil.(Courtesy Matthew Champion, Norfolk and Suffolk Medieval Graffiti ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn't feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they're usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging magic ...

Animals with human eyes, elephants with dog snouts, and beavers with fish tails–were medieval artists just bad at painting? Not at all. There’s more to these quirky creatures than meets the eye. When ...

Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 ...

This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our understanding ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...