The interactive map created by the University of Cambridge uses coroners' reports from 1300 and 1340 A.D. to determine where, ...

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, as the old song goes. But better yet, with a cold beer in hand at a British pub.

the 14th-century B.C. tomb of King Tutankhamen’s wet nurse, Maia. But Waziri targeted an area that the French team had used to pile the debris from their excavations, calculating that whatever ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought ...

Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

The first written stories about Robin Hood emerged in the late 14th century, although they likely stem from an older oral ...

These spiced buns marked with a cross, originated in 14th-century England. Monks distributed them to the poor, and they became so associated with Good Friday that Queen Elizabeth I banned their ...

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

From Dorset to Derbyshire, Wales to Wester Ross, these strolls through some of the UK's loveliest landscapes are for all ages ...

“The way it was reused tells us about archival practices in 16 th-century England. It’s a piece of history in its own right.” Having ultimately decided to leave it be, the university then ha ...