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

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

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...

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.

To make matters more puzzling, DNA analysis of bodies buried near the site suggests that the builders of Stonehenge had ancestry outside of England ... Stonehenge. A 14th-century manuscript ...

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 ...

a stunning apartment occupying the Georgian west wing and much of the ground floor of this original 14th century peel tower. Situated in the beautiful Weardale countryside, this grade II* listed ...

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 ...

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 ...