Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine ...

Knowing how to make sense of fragmented, incomplete, and sometimes contradictory information is a useful, flexible skill, central to Medieval and Ancient Studies and important for many careers. A ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

For centuries, pagan tribes in Europe's Baltic region used sacrificial horses in funeral rituals. Researchers have long ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

Functionally, clock towers are all but redundant today. Yet new ones keep coming up from time to time. This is because beyond ...

But the bullet-dodging days ended with the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Eleven Jews were ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.