A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

A new survey reveals that the UK public considers the mobile phone to be the second most important invention of all time, ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

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Republican lawmakers in the Sunshine State are advancing a suite of bills making it easier for employers to exploit society’s ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

Day, celebrated on April 1st, is a global tradition involving pranks and practical jokes, from simple tricks to elaborate ...

What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

Our ideas about the future are becoming outdated all the time. That's why some of the bold inventions and scientific predictions from the past today o ...

It’s almost time. After a tease of an initial reveal back in January, the wait for firm details on the is finally coming to an end. Come , we’ll likely know the system’s specs, price, release date, ...